TY  - JOUR
A1  - Azodi, Amir
A1  - Cheng, Feng
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - Event Driven Network Topology Discovery and Inventory Listing Using REAMS
JF  - Wireless personal communications : an international journal
N2  - Network Topology Discovery and Inventory Listing are two of the primary features of modern network monitoring systems (NMS). Current NMSs rely heavily on active scanning techniques for discovering and mapping network information. Although this approach works, it introduces some major drawbacks such as the performance impact it can exact, specially in larger network environments. As a consequence, scans are often run less frequently which can result in stale information being presented and used by the network monitoring system. Alternatively, some NMSs rely on their agents being deployed on the hosts they monitor. In this article, we present a new approach to Network Topology Discovery and Network Inventory Listing using only passive monitoring and scanning techniques. The proposed techniques rely solely on the event logs produced by the hosts and network devices present within a network. Finally, we discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of our approach.
KW  - Network topology
KW  - Inventory systems
KW  - Network monitoring
KW  - Network graph
KW  - Service detection
KW  - Event processing
KW  - Event normalization
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3061-3
SN  - 0929-6212
SN  - 1572-834X
VL  - 94
SP  - 415
EP  - 430
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -