SURFmap: A Network Monitoring Tool Based on the Google Maps API

R.J. Hofstede; Tiago Fioreze

doi:10.1109/INM.2009.5188876

SURFmap: A Network Monitoring Tool Based on the Google Maps API

R.J. Hofstede
, Tiago Fioreze

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Abstract

Network monitoring allows network managers to get a better insight in the network traffic transiting in a managed network. In order to make the tasks of a network manager easier, many network monitoring tools are made available for a wide range of purposes (e.g., traffic accounting, performance analysis, and so on) network managers may have. However, most of these tools lack to provide geographical information about network traffic. This paper presents a network monitoring tool prototype, called SURFmap, which provides network traffic information at a geographical dimension by using the Google Maps API. Through the use of the Google Maps API’s features, SURFmap provides different zoom levels when showing network information, which results in the creation of different levels of abstraction in the network data visualization. SURFmap has revealed to be more intuitive when showing network traffic information, which makes the network monitoring activity from the network manager’s perspective more interesting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009)
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	676-690
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-3487-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2009.5188876
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2009
Event	11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2009: Making Management Scalable, Robust, Cost-Effective and Revenue-Generating - Hofstra University, Long Island, United States Duration: 1 Jun 2009 → 5 Jun 2009 Conference number: 11

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Conference	11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2009
Abbreviated title	IM 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Long Island
Period	1/06/09 → 5/06/09

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EWI-15394
IR-65502
METIS-263865

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Hofstede, RJ & Fioreze, T 2009, SURFmap: A Network Monitoring Tool Based on the Google Maps API. in 2009 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009). IEEE, Piscataway, pp. 676-690, 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2009, Long Island, New York, United States, 1/06/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2009.5188876

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