DIST Visualization Experiments (DIST-Vis)

Project Summary

The Dartmouth Internet Security Testbed (DIST) project extracts large volumes of real-time network data from various campus network instrumentation points. Monitoring network events is expected to reveal trends in network traffic that would eventually lead to the detection of a wide range of network attacks, novel business processes and network performance trends. This collaborative project seeks to develop novel techniques for visualizing human processes as overlays on the physical network topology, and for displaying deviations of behaviors from modeled behaviors so that analysts can better understand how behaviors are drifting over time, whether sequences of deviations are random fluctuations or meaningful trends.

• Project Investigators: Fabio Pellacini and George Cybenko