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2024
Identification of Device Dependencies Using Link Prediction
SADLEK, Lukáš; Martin HUSÁK and Pavel ČELEDA
Basic information
Original name
Identification of Device Dependencies Using Link Prediction
Authors
SADLEK, Lukáš; Martin HUSÁK and Pavel ČELEDA
Edition
Seoul, South Korea, PROCEEDINGS OF 2024 IEEE/IFIP NETWORK OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM, NOMS 2024, p. 1-10, 10 pp. 2024
Publisher
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Other information
Type of outcome
Proceedings paper
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
electronic version available online
Marked to be transferred to RIV
No
Organization
Fakulta informatiky – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
device dependency;link prediction;dependency embedding;network traffic analysis;graph-based analysis;random walk
Links
EH22_010/0003229, research and development project. MUNI/A/1586/2023, interní kód Repo.
In the original language
Devices in computer networks cannot work without essential network services provided by a limited count of devices. Identification of device dependencies determines whether a pair of IP addresses is a dependency, i.e., the host with the first IP address is dependent on the second one. These dependencies cannot be identified manually in large and dynamically changing networks. Nevertheless, they are important due to possible unexpected failures, performance issues, and cascading effects. We address the identification of dependencies using a new approach based on graph-based machine learning. The approach belongs to link prediction based on a latent representation of the computer network’s communication graph. It samples random walks over IP addresses that fulfill time conditions imposed on network dependencies. The constrained random walks are used by a neural network to construct IP address embedding, which is a space that contains IP addresses that often appear close together in the same communication chain (i.e., random walk). Dependency embedding is constructed by combining values for IP addresses from their embedding and used for training the resulting dependency classifier. We evaluated the approach using IP flow datasets from a controlled environment and university campus network that contain evidence about dependencies. Evaluation concerning the correctness and relationship to other approaches shows that the approach achieves acceptable performance. It can simultaneously consider all types of dependencies and is applicable for batch processing in operational conditions.
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