Tensor-Based Data Analysis For Intelligent Network

Abstract: The ever-increasing applications of Big Data in improving networking application performancehave motivated the networking community to deploy it in SDN (Software defined network) toconstruct flexible, scalable, self-aware, and self-managing networks. The primary purpose ofthis research is to investigate the validity of tensor-decomposition, a well-knownmathematical approach for data reduction, to catch patterns in network traffic as an initialstep toward the network's intelligence.Using only three-dimensional (cubic) tensors (Source, Destination, Bandwidth). Theconducted research used both offline (not simulated) and online (Mininet and RYU controllersimulation) network traffic of the GEANT (TOTEM) dataset. From the tensor decompositionanalysis on the adjacency matricies, we caught traffic intensity patterns between nodes(switches), which provided suggestions that helps rebuild the topology (which nodes shouldbe physically connected to the others). However, capturing the patterns in the time revolutionwas invalid due to limitations in the three-dimensional tensor.