Title
PeerSorter: Classifying Generic P2P Traffic in Real-Time
Abstract
The rapid development of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology brings challenges to quality of service (QoS), network planning and access control. An accurate classification of P2P traffic is vital for addressing those challenges. Traditional port-based and payload-based methods fail to cope with emerging port disguise and payload encryption techniques. In this paper, we present Peer Sorter, a system for the classification of generic P2P traffic in real-time. Peer Sorter is featured by four characteristics. Firstly, it can accurately classify nearly all kinds of legitimate P2P applications as well as various P2P botnets, by building application profiles of their significant network activity patterns. Moreover, Peer Sorter is capable of real-time processing, because of its simplicity of mechanism and small classification time windows. In addition, Peer Sorter can be readily extended by adding profiles of new P2P applications. Finally, Peer Sorter can work well even in the scenario where the classification target is running along with other bandwidth consumer (including P2P applications) at the same time. We evaluate the performance of Peer Sorter on traffic datasets of a large variety of P2P applications, including two popular P2P botnets. The experimental results demonstrate that we can classify all the considered types of P2P traffic with an average true positive rate of 97.83% and an average false positive rate below 0.04% within 2 minutes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CSE.2014.134
C3S2E
Keywords
Field
DocType
peer-to-peer technology,traffic classification,invasive software,quality of service,generic p2p traffic classification,pattern classification,botnet,p2p botnets,qos,network planning,authorisation,peer to peer,peersorter,real-time,peer-to-peer computing,access control,protocols,real time systems,feature extraction
Traffic classification,Network planning and design,Peer-to-peer,Computer science,Botnet,Computer network,Dead Peer Detection,Quality of service,Encryption,Payload
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jie He1197.35
Yuexiang Yang25512.66
Xiaolei Wang3163.10
Yingzhi Zeng4225.59
Chuan Tang5153.70