Biswas, Amitava (2005) A high performance real-time packet capturing architecture for network management systems. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
In a network management system, software sensors (agents) collect system information and notify the central control system utilizing UDP/IP packets. When the network suffers a failure, the packet receiver encounters a flood of messages from a large number of agents. In such a situation, the receiver has to capture all these messages and process them in real-time. The thesis addresses this problem about how to design and develop a receiver that can capture large volume of packets while consuming minimum CPU resources. Linux network stack, contemporary related research work and some high capacity packet capturing solutions like NAPI and PFRING were studied to expose their limitations. Issues that limit the performance of these architectures have been identified and addressed in this thesis. Based on this analysis, a few design principles have been identified which can be applied to design and implement a high capacity, efficient packet capturing solution
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Authors: | Biswas, Amitava |
| Pagination: | xviii, 213 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.A. Sc. |
| Program: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Hashtrudi Zad, Shahin |
| ID Code: | 8501 |
| Deposited By: | Concordia University Libraries |
| Deposited On: | 18 Aug 2011 14:27 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2011 15:26 |
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