Use of a cepstral information norm for anomaly detection in a BGP-inferred interent

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2007

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Chiera, B.
Kraetzl, M.
Roughan, M.
White, L.

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Chiera, B.

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Australian Communication Theory Workshop Proceedings 2007 / pp.116-121

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Belinda A. Chiera, Miro Kraetzl, Matthew Roughan and Langford B. White

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Australian Communication Theory Workshop (8th : 2007 : Adelaide, Australia)

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In this paper we use a particular type of mutual information norm — the cepstral information norm — for anomaly detection at the router level in the Internet. We combine the cepstral norm with a state space Kalman filter to define two distance metrics to capture anomalous behaviour. These metrics are implemented using a subspace-based model-free paradigm to aid realtime analysis. We infer a top level Internet topology using Border Gateway Protocol router updates and characterise the structural evolution of the network using a selection of graph metrics. Analysis over one week of non time-homogeneous updates, which includes The SQL Slammer worm event, shows the combined use of the two cepstral distance metrics detects the occurrence and severity of anomalous network events.

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© 2007 The Pennsylvania State University

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