==== Identification data ====
Title: **Distributed Architecture for Real-Time Traffic Analysis
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Author: Cristian Morariu\\
e-mail: morariu@ifi.uzh.ch\\
Partner: UniZH\\
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller\\
Committee: Prof. Dr. Burkharad Stiller, NN\\
Year of start: 2004\\
Year of end: 2009\\
Funding institution: University of Zurich\\

==== Abstract ====
The goal of this doctoral thesis is the design and prototypical implementation of an architecture for distributed analysis of IP traffic. As network link speeds increase year-by-year having stand-alone devices that perform traffic analysis becomes unfeasible. A distributed platform for traffic analysis would leverage the processing requirements of such a task by combining resources of multiple devices performing traffic analysis. The thesis shall investigate three different areas of traffic analysis: capturing data on high-speed links, analysis of captured data, and storage of analysis results for further processing by third-party applications.

Brief description of the scope and objectives of the PhD thesis:
  * Evaluation of existing traffic monitoring tools and approaches
  * Analysis of requirements for a generic traffic analysis platform using at least two different scenarios
  * Design of the architecture 
  * Prototypical implementation of the distributed platform for traffic analysis
  * Evaluation of the approach based on the prototypical implementation	

==== Related Papers ====
  - C. Morariu, B. Stiller: A Distributed Architecture for IP Traffic Analysis. Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2007), Oslo, Norway, June 2007.
  - C. Morariu, M. Feier, B. Stiller: LINUBIA: A Linux-supported User-Based IP Accounting. 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007), San Jose, USA, October 2007.

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