Anomaly Detection in NFV Using Tree-Based Unsupervised Learning Method
With the increased adoption of virtualized NFs in data center, it is crucial toaddress some of the challenges such as performance and availability of the applications invirtualized network environment. The normal operation of the network can be analyzed withrespect to the usage of various resources like, CPU, memory, network and disk. Inefficientusage or over usage of these resources leads to anomalous behavior. Anomalies are oftenpreceded by faults. It is important to detect anomalies before they occur. The detectedanomalies can be used for corrective and optimization actions. This paper presents that;unsupervised machine learning algorithm performs better compared to supervised machinelearning algorithms in detecting anomalies. Here we use isolation forest algorithm on timeseries dataset, which is collected using monitoring agent collectd. Stress is induced to thecomputer using traffic monitoring generator and stress-ng. The results show that isolationforest algorithm gives better performance in anomaly detection with good anomaly score.