LCGT: a low-cost continuous ground truth generation method for traffic classification

  • Authors:
  • Xu Tian;Xiaohong Huang;Qiong Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Institute of Networking Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China;Research Institute of Networking Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China;Research Institute of Networking Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • APNOMS'09 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific network operations and management conference on Management enabling the future internet for changing business and new computing services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, with the progress of research on accurate traffic classification (TC), the major obstacle to achieving accurate TC is the lack of an efficient ground truth (GT) generation method. A firm GT is important for exploring the underlying characteristics of network traffic, building the traffic model, and verifying the classification result, etc. However, current existing GT generation methods can only be made manually or with additional high-cost DPI (deep packet inspection) devices. They are neither too complicated nor too expensive for research community. In response to this problem, we present LCGT, a lowcost continuous GT generation method for TC. Based on LCGT, we propose a novel updateable TC system, which can always reflect the features of up-to-date traffic. While we have found LCGT to be very useful in our own research, we seek to initiate a broader discussion to guide the refinement of the tools. LCGT is located on: http://code.google.com/p/traclassy