Understanding Effectiveness of Eco Monitoring Networks: Information Theoretical Perspective

Abstract:

This work studies eco monitoring networks. As eco monitoring networks have been used to monitor large networks, questions arise whether decentralized inference is efficient and whether an eco monitoring network with a moderate size can monitor an underlying network at the Internet scale. This work studies the local effectiveness of decentralized inference done by individual monitors. Information theoretical measures, i.e., conditional non-uniformity factor is applied to quantify the effectiveness. Large-scale data from DShield is used to access the effectiveness of a real eco monitoring network.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 765-767)
• Pages: 2213-2219
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.765-767.2213
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Su Min Li
• Keywords: Conditional Non-Uniformity Factor, DShield, Eco Monitoring Networks

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