System and method for network traffic profiling and visualization

• Main Authors: Hylkema, Michael M, Pietrowicz, Stanley, Naidu, Aditya, Martin, Paul D, Youzwak, Jason
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.03.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A computer program product, computer system, and method for performing traffic analysis on a wireless mesh network, includes intercepting a stream of real-time wireless from field probes on the wireless mesh network, wherein the stream comprises non-standard protocol elements and encrypted traffic, creating an ad hoc network parallel to the wireless mesh network, obtaining, from the ad hoc network, the intercepted stream (the analyzing is performed parallel to traffic flow on the wireless mesh network), pre-processing a portion of the intercepted stream the data, where the pre-processing comprises descrambling and processing headers in the stream to differentiate the packets in the stream and create a combined output stream, obtaining the combined output stream and creating indicators by selecting an analysis operator to apply to one or more dissected fields extracted from the output stream, analyzing the packets in the combined output stream utilizing the indicators, and obtaining results from the indicators and reporting, the results from the indicators.