Faulty distributed system component identification

Abstract

A system for detecting a communication computer node malfunction by analysis of network traffic output by the network node. Low latency packet computer nodes copy network traffic and transmit it to ananalytics engine, which may use machine learning techniques, including long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks, to determine a likelihood that the output of one data router in a network is suffering from a software malfunction, hardware malfunction, or network connectivity issue, and preserve overall data quality in the network by causing cessation of traffic by the malfunctioning node of the network.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for ensuring network integrity and functionality, and more particularly to identifying and resolving anomalous activity of nodes and routers in electronic communication networks. Background technique [0002] In many types of computer networks, various participants or computing devices at opposite ends of the network rely on various intermediate routers to accurately retransmit and route received packets to appropriate destination. In some networks, routers may additionally be responsible for aggregating, modifying or filtering received data before forwarding to the data's final destination. [0003] A software failure or hardware failure in one of the data routers may cause significant adverse effects on those data routers that depend on the integrity of the data being transmitted. For example, a weather data router may report that conditions are safe, when in fact a tornado is forming nearby due...

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[0003] A software failure or hardware failure in one of these data routers could cause significant adverse effects on those data routers that depend on the integrity of the data being transmitted

For example, a weather data router may report that conditions are safe, when in fact a tornado is forming nearby due to the repetition of old wind speed data that it believes has not been received and acknowledged, and that is already acknowledged in the queue. No new data can be transferred until it is sent

If the High Frequency Stock Order Router erroneously transmits incorrect information and the market fulfills an incorrect offer to sell or responds to an offer apparently made by one market participant, the High Frequency Stock Order Router could result in millions of dollars in losses. loss and even trigger a panic or sell

Mission-critical websites can be shut down by denial-of-service attacks if firewalls or other filters mistakenly allow traffic that should be filtered out to the central server

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