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The Time-Varying Dependency Patterns of NetFlow Statistics

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Publication date1/12/2016
Host publication2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
PublisherIEEE
Pages288-294
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)9781509059102
ISBN (print)9781509059119
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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Name2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (electronic)2375-9259

Abstract

We investigate where and how key dependency structure between measures of network activity change throughout the course of daily activity. Our approach to data-mining is probabilistic in nature, we formulate the identification of dependency patterns as a regularised statistical estimation problem. The resulting model can be interpreted as a set of time-varying graphs and provides a useful visual interpretation of network activity. We believe this is the first application of dynamic graphical modelling to network traffic of this kind. Investigations are performed on 9 days of real-world network traffic across a subset of IP's. We demonstrate that dependency between features may change across time and discuss how these change at an intra and inter-day level. Such variation in feature dependency may have important consequences for the design and implementation of probabilistic intrusion detection systems.

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