A multi-resolution flow-net methodology for accountable logging and its application in TCP/IP networks

Today´s computer and network systems were not originally designed for accountability which plays a crucial role in information assurance systems. To assure accountability, each entity in the system should be held responsible for its own behaviors so that the entity is part of larger chains of the system´s accountability. In this paper, we propose designs of a multiresolution flow-net scheme to achieve multiple degrees of accountability. We apply the multi-resolution flow-net on TCP/IP networks that are designed and organized with multiple layers. Simulation results are presented to verify the performance.