Internet Tomography

Abstract

Today's Internet is a massive, distributed network which continues to explode in size as e-commerce and related activities grow. The heterogeneous and largely unregulated structure of the internet renders tasks suck as dynamic routing, optimized service provision, service level verification, and detection of anomalous/malicious behavior increasingly challenging tasks. The problem is compounded by the fact that one cannot rely on the cooperation of individual servers and routers to aid in the collection of network traffic measurements vital for these tasks. In many ways, network monitoring and interference problems bear a strong resemblance to other "inverse problems: in which key aspects of a system are not directly observable. Familiar signal processing problems such as tomographic image reconstruction, system identification, and array processing all have interesting interpretations in the networking context. This article introduces the new field of network tomography, a field which we believe will benefit greatly from the wealth of signal processing theory and algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA640013

Entities

People

  • Alfred Hero
  • Bin Yu
  • Mark Coates
  • Robert D. Nowak

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Engineering
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Information Operations
  • Internet
  • Inverse Problems
  • Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Tomography

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Economics
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.