Title
Flow classification using clustering and association rule mining
Abstract
Traffic classification has become a crucial domain of research due to the rise in applications that are either encrypted or tend to change port consecutively. The challenge of flow classification is to determine the applications involved without any information on the payload. In this paper, our goal is to achieve a robust and reliable flow classification using data mining techniques. We propose a classification model which not only classifies flow traffic, but also performs behavior pattern profiling. The classification is implemented by using clustering algorithms, and association rules are derived by using the “Apriori” algorithms. We are able to find an association between flow parameters for various applications, therefore making the algorithm independent of the characterized applications. The rule mining helps us to depict various behavior patterns for an application, and those behavior patterns are then fed back to refine the classification model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CAMAD.2010.5686959
Computer Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,data mining,pattern classification,pattern clustering,telecommunication traffic,Internet,apriori algorithm,association rule mining,association rules,behavior pattern,clustering algorithm,flow traffic classification
Traffic classification,Data mining,Data modeling,Computer science,Profiling (computer programming),Apriori algorithm,Encryption,Association rule learning,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Statistical classification,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7633-6
6
0.51
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Umang K. Chaudhary160.51
Ioannis Papapanagiotou213815.43
Michael Devetsikiotis387193.90