TY - GEN
T1 - A passive network appliance for real-time network monitoring
AU - Schultz, Michael J.
AU - Wun, Ben
AU - Crowley, Patrick
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Network administrators lack the tools they need to understand and react to their changing networks. This makes it difficult for them to make informed, timely decisions regarding network management, capacity planning, and security. These challenges will only increase as networks continue to gain in throughput, become more complex, and encrypt more and more of their traffic. This paper describes the Passive Network Appliance, or PNA, which is our proposed solution to this problem. The PNA provides snapshots of network behavior through time, in a cost-effective manner. The PNA is implemented on commodity hardware and can enforce network policy in real-time at the granularity of network frame arrival. This paper describes the system, and its evaluation in both laboratory and real-world deployments.
AB - Network administrators lack the tools they need to understand and react to their changing networks. This makes it difficult for them to make informed, timely decisions regarding network management, capacity planning, and security. These challenges will only increase as networks continue to gain in throughput, become more complex, and encrypt more and more of their traffic. This paper describes the Passive Network Appliance, or PNA, which is our proposed solution to this problem. The PNA provides snapshots of network behavior through time, in a cost-effective manner. The PNA is implemented on commodity hardware and can enforce network policy in real-time at the granularity of network frame arrival. This paper describes the system, and its evaluation in both laboratory and real-world deployments.
KW - Computer-Communication Networks
KW - Network Monitoring
KW - Network Operations
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/81255213875
U2 - 10.1109/ANCS.2011.46
DO - 10.1109/ANCS.2011.46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81255213875
SN - 9780769545219
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2011
SP - 239
EP - 249
BT - Proceedings - 2011 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2011
T2 - 2011 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS 2011
Y2 - 3 October 2011 through 4 October 2011
ER -