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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2006.2.3.183

A Light-weight and Dynamically Reconfigurable RMON Agent System

Lee, Jun-Hyung (School of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
Park, Zin-Won (School of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
Kim, Myung-Kyun (School of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, University of Ulsan)

Publication Information

Journal of Information Processing Systems / v.2, no.3, 2006 , pp. 183-188 More about this Journal

Abstract

A RMON agent system, which locates on a subnet, collects the network traffic information for management by retrieving and analyzing all of the packets on the subnet. The RMON agent system can miss some packets due to the high packet analyzing overhead when the number of packets on the subnet is huge. In this paper, we have developed a light-weight RMON agent system that can handle a large amount of packets without packet loss. Our RMON agent system has also been designed such that its functionality can be added dynamically when needed. To demonstrate the dynamic reconfiguration capability of our RMON agent system, a simple port scanning attack detection module is added to the RMON agent system. We have also evaluated the performance of our RMON agent system on a large network that has a huge traffic. The test result has shown our RMON agent system can analyze the network packets without packet loss.

Keywords

Network management; RMON agent system; Dynamic reconfiguration;

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