Title
Scalable Network Traffic Classification Using Distributed Support Vector Machines
Abstract
Internet traffic has increased dramatically in recent years due to the popularization of the Internet and the appearance of wireless Internet mobile devices such as smart-phones and tablets. The explosive growth of Internet traffic has introduced a practical example that demonstrates the concept of Big Data. Accurate identification and classification of large network traffic data plays an important role in network management including capacity planning, network forensics, QoS and intrusion detection. However, the state-of-the-art solutions, which rely on a dedicated server, are not scalable for analyzing high volume network traffic data. In this paper, we implement a distributed Support Vector Machines (SVMs) framework for classifying network traffic using Hadoop, an open-source distributed computing framework for Big Data processing. We design a global parameter store that maintains the global shared parameters between SVM training nodes. The distributed SVMs have been deployed on a 20 node cluster to analyze real network traffic trace. The results demonstrate that with 19 Mapper nodes the system is around 30% faster than Cloud SVM solution and outperforms the standalone SVM with nearly 9 times faster in training process and 15 times in the classifying process. In addition, the distributed SVMs architecture is designed to analyze large scale datasets. Therefore, it can be used not only for processing network traffic dataset, but also other large scale datasets such as Web data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/CLOUD.2015.138
CLOUD
Field
DocType
Citations 
Traffic classification,Traffic generation model,Network forensics,Computer science,Internet traffic engineering,Network architecture,Computer network,Network traffic control,Network traffic simulation,Internet traffic,Distributed computing
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Le Quoc, D.1558.21
Valerio D'Alessandro230.42
Byungchul Park3234.58
Luigi Romano4132.86
Christof Fetzer52429172.89