A security event processing platform
Fernandes, Daniel Alexandre Sobral
MSc Thesis · 2019 · University of Coimbra
Supervisors: Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Simões, Tiago José dos Santos Martins da Cruz
Abstract
In a world of constant technological growth, in which more and more things are being virtualized, there are opportunities to create ambitious and innovative projects that can open ways for many new technologies and businesses to be created. The 5G architecture is one of these advancements. By integrating many aspects such as virtualization and software defined networking, it can is designed to provide a substantial leap regarding its ancestor technology, 4G. 5G makes use of these paradigms to enable technologies such as, for example, robotic surgery, autonomous driving and low latency Virtual Reality (VR).However, even though this architecture greatly benefited from the software defined networking and virtualization paradigms, the lack of intermediary software has become a problem, heavily affecting the practical use of this type of networks. There is a lack of monitoring software, management software, and middlewares for the interaction of certain (usually important) network components. This compels the developers and network operators to create their own middlewares and applications that allow the platform to work as intended.This thesis has the goal of creating such software, in this case, an event collector service, plus a dashboard which will aggregate and display data about the other nodes and services in the 5G platform.The tests done to the created software ensure the performance levels obtained are up to par with the project's demands, and the components should allow for a performance scaling later down the road, if necessary.