Entropy-Based Heavy Tailed Distribution Transformation for Network Traffic Analysis

Abstract

In general, network traffic data has a heavy-tailed probability distribution. The Entropy-Based Heavy Tailed Distribution Transformation (EHTDT) has been developed to convert the heavy tailed network traffic data distribution into a transformed probability distribution. In practice, the entropy distribution of the transformed probability distribution exhibits a type of linearity that gives rise to an eigenstructure that allows the characterization of network traffic data to effectively lossily compress network traffic data via the Rate Controlled Eigen-Based Coding. The aforementioned eigenstructure is motivated by singular value decomposition theory. A very high compression ratio can be achieved by the proposed method. Results of applying the methods to real network traffic data network traffic data are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA528299

Entities

People

  • Keesook J. Han

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Change Detection
  • Compression
  • Computational Complexity
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Decomposition
  • Detection
  • Factor Analysis
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Probability
  • Regression Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Linear Algebra
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Statistical inference.