Title
Inference of social network behavior from Internet traffic traces
Abstract
All network traffic is a byproduct of social networking. In this paper, Anonymized Internet (IP) Trace Datasets obtained from the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) has been used to identify and estimate characteristics of the underlying social network from the overall traffic. The analysis methods used here fall into two groups, the first being based on frequency analysis and second method being based on the use of traffic matrices, with the later analysis method being further sub-divided into groups based on the traffic mean, variance and covariance. The frequency analysis of origin (O), destination (D) and O-D Pair statistics exhibit heavy tailed behavior. Because the large number of IP addresses contained in the CAIDA Datasets, only the most predominate IP Addresses are used when estimating all three sub-divided groups of traffic matrices. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and related methods are applied to identify key features of each type of traffic matrix. A new system called Antraff has been developed to carry out all the analysis procedures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ATNAC.2016.7878773
2016 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
social network behavior inference,Internet traffic traces,network traffic,social networking,anonymized Internet trace datasets,Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis,CAIDA datasets,characteristics identification,characteristics estimation,frequency analysis,traffic matrices,traffic mean,traffic variance,traffic covariance,origin statistics,destination statistics,O-D pair statistics,IP addresses,subdivided groups,principal component analysis,PCA,Antraff
Data mining,Social network,Matrix (mathematics),Inference,Matrix decomposition,Engineering,Internet traffic,Principal component analysis,Covariance,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-0920-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mostfa Albdair111.06
Ronald G. Addie200.68
David Fatseas300.34