Cristian Morariu

Summary
Student:	Cristian Morariu
Title:	Distributed Architecture for Real-Time Traffic Analysis
e-mail:	morariu@ifi.uzh.ch
Affiliation:	UniZH
Supervisor:	Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller
Committee:	Prof. Dr. Burkharad Stiller, NN
Start:	2004
End:	2009
Funding:	University of Zurich

Biography

PhD project description

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

References

1. C. Morariu, B. Stiller: A Distributed Architecture for IP Traffic Analysis. Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2007), Oslo, Norway, June 2007.
2. 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.

External links

• [_URL_ Homepage] of Cristian Morariu
• Publications of Cristian Morariu, as indexed by DBLP