Network Monitoring and Data Analysis in Wireless Networks

Various wireless network technologies have been created to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless access to the Internet, such as wireless local area network, cellular network and sensor network and many more. The communication devices have transformed from large computational servers to small wireless hand-held devices, ranging from laptops, tablets, smartphones to small sensors. The advances of these wireless networks (e.g., faster network speed) and their intensive usages result in an enormous growth of network data in terms of volume, diversity, and complexity. All of these changes have raised complicated network measurement and management issues. In this proposal, I first investigate the impact of wireless local area network in home and network security monitoring. Then I propose effective and efficient approaches in analyzing network data, particularly those generated by smartphone apps and sensor networks.