UCSD Network Telescope Aggregated Flow Dataset

This dataset consists of hourly files of unsolicited traffic captured by the UCSD Network Telescope traces and aggregated into the FlowTuple format.

Data and Resources

Field Value
creationMethod <p><span style="color: rgb(56, 63, 69);">Raw data captured by the UCSD Network Telescope are stored in huge pcap files, each file containing 1 hour of data. In order to enable more efficient data storage, processing, and analysis, these hourly pcap files are post-processed using&nbsp;</span><a href="https://catalog.caida.org/software/corsaro" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(63, 84, 129); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Corsaro</a><span style="color: rgb(56, 63, 69);">&nbsp;software to extract the most important packet header fields and aggregate data into FlowTuple files.</span></p>
dataAuthType public
dataType FlowTuple
datasetPageUrl https://catalog.caida.org/dataset/corsaro_flowtuple
doi 10.21986/CAIDA.DATA.TELESCOPE-FLOWTUPLE
issueDate 2003-11-06
lastUpdateDate 2025-12-03
license other
min_gpu {}
ndp_creator_md5 10b82778352e3fc35792c701663926a9
otherLicense CAIDA AUA https://www.caida.org/catalog/datasets/telescope-flowtuple/
pocEmail info@caida.org
pocName CAIDA
pocWebsite https://catalog.caida.org
req_gpu {}
status submitted
theme []
updateFreq hourly
uploadType dataset
Tags
  • caida
  • security
  • telescope
  • telescope-flowtuple
  • traffic
  • ucsd-network-telescope
isopen False
metadata_created 2026-10-30T16:40:26.047949
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T16:40:26.047954
notes <p>This dataset consists of hourly files of unsolicited traffic captured by the UCSD Network Telescope traces and aggregated into the FlowTuple format.</p>
num_resources 1
num_tags 6
title UCSD Network Telescope Aggregated Flow Dataset