Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2014
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Department
Department of Computer Science
Abstract
The edge of the Internet is increasingly becoming wireless. Therefore, monitoring the wireless edge is important to understanding the security and performance aspects of the Internet experience. We have designed and implemented a large-scale WLAN monitoring system, the Distributed Internet Security Testbed (DIST), at Dartmouth College. It is equipped with distributed arrays of “sniffers” that cover 210 diverse campus locations and more than 5,000 users. In this paper, we describe our approach, designs and solutions for addressing the technical challenges that have resulted from efficiency, scalability, security, and management perspectives. We also present extensive evaluation results on a production network, and summarize the lessons learned.
DOI
10.1109/TMC.2012.237
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Keren Tan, Chris McDonald, Bennet Vance, Chrisil Arackaparambil, Sergey Bratus, and David Kotz. From MAP to DIST: the evolution of a large-scale WLAN monitoring system. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2014. 10.1109/TMC.2012.237