Towards a data semantics management system for internet traffic

Bassem Mokhtar, Mohamed Eltoweissy

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3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Although current Internet operations generate voluminous data, they remain largely oblivious of traffic data semantics. This poses many inefficiencies and challenges due to emergent or anomalous behavior impacting the vast array of Internet elements such as services and protocols. In this paper, we propose a Data Semantics Management System (DSMS) for learning Internet traffic data semantics to enable smarter semantics-driven networking operations. We extract networking semantics and build and utilize a dynamic ontology of network concepts to better recognize and act upon emergent or abnormal behavior. Our DSMS utilizes: (1) Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm (LDA) for latent features extraction and semantics reasoning; (2) big tables as a cloud-like data storage technique to maintain large-scale data; and (3) Locality Sensitive Hashing algorithm (LSH) for reducing data dimensionality. Our preliminary evaluation using real Internet traffic shows the efficacy of DSMS for learning behavior of normal and abnormal traffic data and for accurately detecting anomalies at low cost.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security - Proceedings of NTMS 2014 Conference and Workshops
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781479932238
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2014 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Duration: Mar 30 2014Apr 2 2014

Publication series

Name2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security - Proceedings of NTMS 2014 Conference and Workshops

Other

Other2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityDubai
Period3/30/144/2/14

Keywords

  • Behavior Analysis Analysis
  • Big Data
  • Data Reduction
  • Network Semantics
  • Semantic Reasoning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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