Visual analysis of network traffic for resource planning, interactive monitoring, and interpretation of security threats

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1105-1112

  Mansmann, Florian ^a   Keim, Daniel A ^a   North, Stephen C ^b   Rexroad, Brian ^b   Sheleheda, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b AT and T ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Network monitoring; Network security; Treemap

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; SECURITY THREATS; TREEMAP;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VISUALIZATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948957403     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70522     Document Type: Article

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