Early classification of network traffic through multi-classification

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Dainotti;Antonio Pescapé;Carlo Sansone

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering and Systems, Universitá di Napoli Federico II;Department of Computer Engineering and Systems, Universitá di Napoli Federico II;Department of Computer Engineering and Systems, Universitá di Napoli Federico II

  • Venue:
  • TMA'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Traffic monitoring and analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In thiswork we present and evaluate different automated combination techniques for traffic classification. We consider six intelligent combination algorithms applied to both traditional and more recent traffic classification techniques using either packet content or statistical properties of flows. Preliminary results show that, when selecting complementary classifiers, some combination algorithms allow a further improvement - in terms of classification accuracy - over already well-performing standalone classification techniques. Moreover, our experiments show that the positive impact of combination is particularly significant when there are early-classification constraints, that is, when the classification of a flow must be obtained in its early stage (e.g. first 1-4 packets) in order to perform network operations online.