Title
URCA: Pulling out Anomalies by their Root Causes
Abstract
Traffic anomaly detection has received a lot of attention over recent years, but understanding the nature of these anomalies and identifying the flows involved is still a manual task, in most cases. We introduce Unsupervised Root Cause Analysis (URCA) which isolates anomalous traffic and classifies alarms with minimal manual assistance and high accuracy. URCA proceeds by successive reduction of the anomalous space, eliminating normal traffic based on feedback from the anomaly detection method. Classification is done by clustering a new anomaly with previously labeled events. We validate URCA using manually analyzed real anomalies as well as synthetic anomaly injection. Our validation shows that URCA can accurately diagnose a large range of anomaly types, including network scans, DDoS attacks, and major routing changes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5462151
San Diego, CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
telecommunication congestion control,telecommunication security,anomalous space,anomalous traffic isolation,classification,root causes,traffic anomaly detection,unsupervised root cause analysis
Anomaly detection,Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Root cause analysis,Computer network,Telecommunication security,Classification tree analysis,Cluster analysis,Statistical classification,Communications society
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-166X
978-1-4244-5836-3
27
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.18
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fernando Silveira1271.18
Christophe Diot27831590.69