Emna Salhi, Samer Lahoud, and Bernard Cousin (2012)
Localization of Single Link-Level Network Anomalies
In: Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2012 21st International Conference on, pages 1 -9.
Achieving accurate, cost-efficient, and fast anomaly
localization is a highly desired feature in computer
networks. Prior works, examining the problem of single
link-level anomaly localization, have claimed that a
necessary condition for localizing anomalies unambiguously
is to deploy resources that enable the monitoring of a set
of paths distinguishing between all links of the network
pairwise. In this paper, we show that the number of pair of
links that are to be distinguished can be cut down
drastically using an already established anomaly detection
solution. This results in reducing the localization
overhead and cost significantly. Furthermore, we show that
all potential anomaly scenarios can be derived offline from
the anomaly detection solution. Therefore, we compute full
localization solutions, i.e. monitors that are to be
activated and paths that are to be monitored, for all
potential anomaly scenarios offline. This results in a
significant minimization of the localization delay. We
devise an anomaly localization technique that selects
monitor locations and monitoring paths jointly; thereby
enabling a trade-off between the number and locations of
monitoring devices and the quality of monitoring paths. The
problem is formulated as an integer linear program (ILP),
and is shown to be NP-hard through a polynomial-time
reduction from the NP-hard facility location problem. The
effectiveness and the correctness of the proposed anomaly
localization scheme are verified through theoretical
analysis and extensive simulations.