Presentation 2018-12-13
Towards application of network topology information to network log causal anlaysis
Satoru Kobayashi, Kazuki Otomo, Kensuke Fukuda,
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Abstract(in English) To detect root causes of failures in large-scale networks, we need to extract contextual information from operational data automatically. Causal inference is one of the approaches to achieve it, but has a problem of enormous processing time with large-scale data. In this research, we propose a preprocessing method for PC algorithm, a causal structure estimation algorithm based on causal inference. We prune self-evidently failure causal edges from initial graph with a prior knowledge of network topology. With this preprocessing, we decrease 25% processing time of causal structure estimation of log data in nation-wide R&E network. We also show our method detects more useful information for troubleshooting compared to area-based existing method.
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Keyword(in English) System log / Causal inference / Pruning / Network topology
Paper # IA2018-40
Date of Issue 2018-12-06 (IA)

Conference Information
Committee IA / IN
Conference Date 2018/12/13(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Hiroshima Univ.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Performance Analysis and Simulation, Robustness, Traffic and Throughput Measurement, Quality of Service (QoS) Control, Congestion Control, Overlay Network/P2P, IPv6, Multicast, Routing, DDoS, etc.
Chair Katsuyoshi Iida(Hokkaido Univ.) / Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT)
Vice Chair Rei Atarashi(IIJ) / Hiroyuki Osaki(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Toru Kondo(Hiroshima Univ.) / Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.)
Secretary Rei Atarashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Hiroyuki Osaki(TOYOTA-IT) / Toru Kondo(NEC) / Kenji Ishida(KDDI Research)
Assistant Kenji Ohira(Tokushima Univ.) / Ryohei Banno(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Internet Architecture / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Towards application of network topology information to network log causal anlaysis
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) System log
Keyword(2) Causal inference
Keyword(3) Pruning
Keyword(4) Network topology
1st Author's Name Satoru Kobayashi
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics(NII)
2nd Author's Name Kazuki Otomo
2nd Author's Affiliation The university of Tokyo(Univ. Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Kensuke Fukuda
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics(NII)
Date 2018-12-13
Paper # IA2018-40
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) IA-360
Page pp.pp.1-8(IA),
#Pages 8
Date of Issue 2018-12-06 (IA)