Automatic Detection of Grid Delivery Services Using a Real-Time Monitoring System

Abstract

Though Grid Delivery Services (GDSs) can promote Quality of Service (QoS) in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), some of them may degrade the performance of the client computers by consuming the network resources. The worst part of GDSs is that some of them are registered as system services and executed automatically when the operating system boots up. Since GDSs are not classified as malware, it is extremely hard to detect them automatically even when the user wants to remove them. This paper proposes an automatic method to detect GDSs by monitoring the network usage of all the processes. We include empirical evidence to indicate this approach is effective even though it adopts an extremely simple approach.