A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Network Fault Diagnosis and Follow-up Action

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• 作者：Ezzat Kirmani ; Cynthia S. Hood
• 关键词：Cluster computing ; Fault management ; Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis ; Reliability of a diagnosis ; Sensitivity ; Specificity ; Network worms ; Address blacklisting ; Content filtering ; Random constant spread model
• 刊名：Journal of Network and Systems Management
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：25
• 期：1
• 页码：159-179
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Computer Communication Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks; Information Systems and Communication Service; Operation Research/Decis
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-7705
• 卷排序：25

文摘

Fault management and security of computer networks present new challenges of increasing complexity. Decision procedures for fault diagnosis, security-related threats, and follow-up actions must, however, be evaluated on the basis of sound theoretical foundations and economic costs of various strategies. This paper presents a minimum expected cost solution for fault diagnosis and corrective actions. Several notions new to fault management are introduced. The methodology is applicable to both non-malicious and malicious faults. As a novel security-related application, the problem of choosing between two strategies for containing the spread of network worms is discussed.