Interactive Textured Cube Based Network Traffic Visualization for Network Monitoring and Security

摘要

We introduce an original visualization design based on an interactive 3D representation of the traffic between selected computer networks in order to achieve the efficient monitoring and analysis of this traffic. This design is based on a representation of the selected networks by textured cubes. Textures are modified according to the activity of the associated networks. Network traffic is then displayed as links between the cubes, the geometrical and color properties of these links being used to encode various properties of the traffic. We also present a prototype implemented according to this design and tests that were made to evaluate it.