Title
Automatically identifying apps in mobile traffic
Abstract
With the rapid development of smartphones in recent years, we have witnessed an exponential growth of the number of mobile apps. Considering the security and management issues, network operators need to have a clear visibility into the apps running in the network. To this end, this paper presents a novel approach to generating the fingerprints for mobile apps from network traffic. The fingerprints that characterize the unique behaviors of specific mobile apps can be used to identify mobile apps from the real network traffic. In order to handle the large volume of traffic efficiently, we use non-negative matrix factorization NMF to perform traffic analysis to cluster similar network traffic into groups. Then, access patterns of individual apps that are extracted from each group can be used as fingerprints distinguishing apps from others uniquely. The experimental evaluations show that the proposed approach can identify the mobile apps from random and mixed network traffic with high precision. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1002/cpe.3703
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Keywords
DocType
Volume
non negative matrix factorization,traffic classification,clustering
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
1532-0626
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
8
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianhua Sun170.89
lingjun she250.47
hao chen381.61
wenyong zhong470.85
Cheng Chang544054.17
zhiwen chen6102.61
wentao li750.47
shuna yao850.47