Title:
Packets with Provenance

dc.contributor.author Ramachandran, Anirudh
dc.contributor.author Bhandankar, Kaushik
dc.contributor.author Tariq, Mukarram Bin
dc.contributor.author Feamster, Nick
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Computer Science
dc.date.accessioned 2008-11-07T22:00:22Z
dc.date.available 2008-11-07T22:00:22Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.description.abstract Traffic classification and distinction allows network operators to provision resources, enforce trust, control unwanted traffic, and traceback unwanted traffic to its source. Today’s classification mechanisms rely primarily on IP addresses and port numbers; unfortunately, these fields are often too coarse and ephemeral, and moreover, they do not reflect traffic’s provenance, associated trust, or relationship to other processes or hosts. This paper presents the design, analysis, user-space implementation, and evaluation of Pedigree, which consists of two components: a trusted tagger that resides on hosts and tags packets with information about their provenance (i.e., identity and history of potential input from hosts and resources for the process that generated them), and an arbiter, which decides what to do with the traffic that carries certain tags. Pedigree allows operators to write traffic classification policies with expressive semantics that reflect properties of the actual process that generated the traffic. Beyond offering new function and flexibility in traffic classification, Pedigree represents a new and interesting point in the design space between filtering and capabilities, and it allows network operators to leverage host-based trust models to decide treatment of network traffic. en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25467
dc.language.iso en_US en
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en
dc.relation.ispartofseries SCS Technical Report ; GT-CS-08-02 en
dc.subject Arbiters en
dc.subject Network traffic en
dc.subject Pedigree en
dc.subject Taggers en
dc.subject Tracking en
dc.title Packets with Provenance en
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Technical Report
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Computer Science
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