Title
Scalable Wireless Traffic Capture Through Community Detection and Trace Similarity
Abstract
Best-performing WLAN monitoring systems must capture as much wireless traffic as possible. To achieve this aim, several monitors are employed to capture wireless exchanges in a target area. Monitors potentially generate large traces that are all merged together to have a more complete, global view of the network behavior. Traces are often more equal than complementary, leading to the underutilization of monitors and to a higher system complexity. In this paper, we propose a methodology to make an efficient use of monitors in order to increase scalability. Such a methodology, based on trace similarity and community detection in graphs, ranks traces to reveal how many and which ones must be merged. Traces at the bottom of the rank, which belong to under-used monitors, are candidates to be relocated somewhere else to extend the target area. We evaluate the proposed methodology in two real-case scenarios. Results show that we can remove up to half of the monitors in our scenarios and still keep the same level of coverage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TMC.2015.2477809
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Monitoring,Merging,Wireless communication,Scalability,Mobile computing,Measurement,Sensors
Fixed wireless,Mobile computing,Wireless network,Wireless,IEEE 802.11,Wireless site survey,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wi-Fi array,Distributed computing,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
7
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Sammarco1194.61
Marcelo Dias de Amorim275866.66
Miguel Elias M. Campista328129.97