Title
Support Vector Machines for TCP traffic classification
Abstract
Support Vector Machines (SVM) represent one of the most promising Machine Learning (ML) tools that can be applied to the problem of traffic classification in IP networks. In the case of SVMs, there are still open questions that need to be addressed before they can be generally applied to traffic classifiers. Having being designed essentially as techniques for binary classification, their generalization to multi-class problems is still under research. Furthermore, their performance is highly susceptible to the correct optimization of their working parameters. In this paper we describe an approach to traffic classification based on SVM. We apply one of the approaches to solving multi-class problems with SVMs to the task of statistical traffic classification, and describe a simple optimization algorithm that allows the classifier to perform correctly with as little training as a few hundred samples. The accuracy of the proposed classifier is then evaluated over three sets of traffic traces, coming from different topological points in the Internet. Although the results are relatively preliminary, they confirm that SVM-based classifiers can be very effective at discriminating traffic generated by different applications, even with reduced training set sizes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.comnet.2009.05.003
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Traffic classification,Machine Learning
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
Computer Networks
106
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.99
19
3
Search Limit
100106
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alice Este11967.42
Francesco Gringoli289061.65
Luca Salgarelli393781.17