Tools for Network Traffic Generation -- A Quantitative Comparison
| Autor: | Gueltoum Bendiab, Stavros Shiaeles, Joseph Rose, Matthew Swann, Nick Savage |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
FOS: Computer and information sciences Correctness Computer Science - Cryptography and Security Computer science Network packet Reliability (computer networking) Distributed computing Security controls Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture Research community Traffic generation model Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Generator (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2020) in collaboration with the International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2020), World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2020) and World Congress on Industrial Control Systems Security (WCICSS-2020) |
| Popis: | Network traffic generators are invaluable tools that allow for applied experimentation to evaluate the performance of networks, infrastructure, and security controls, by modelling and simulating the communication packets and payloads that would be produced by machines and devices on the network. Specifically for security applications, these tools can be used to consistently simulate malicious activity on the network and test the components designed to detect and mitigate malicious activities, in a highly reliable and customisable way. However, despite the promising features, most of these tools have some problems that can undermine the correctness of experiments. The accuracy of the simulation results depends strongly on the performance and reliability of the used generator. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the performance and accuracy of three of the most reviewed network traffic generators in literature, namely Cisco TRex, Ostinato and Genesids. Mainly, the comparative experiments examine the strengths and limitations of these tools, which can help the research community to choose the most suitable one to assess the performance of their networks and security controls 10 pages, 7 figures. World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2020) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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