Title
Comparison Of Hmm And Rnn Models For Network Traffic Modeling
Abstract
Major applications for statistical modeling of network traffic flows can be found in network testing and imitating of unavailable devices. Since packet-level modeling is considered, packet size (PS) and inter-arrival time (IAT) features are sufficient for accurate statistics. Two models are compared based on the hidden Markov model (HMM) framework and a recurrent neural network (RNN). In the RNN model, the feature space is encoded with latent components of a Gaussian mixture model (GMM). The comparison is carried out with a voice Skype call and traffic of an IoT device, and evaluated with the rolling entropy and Kulback-Leibler divergence (KLD) metrics that are derived from the generated PS and IAT parameters. The results show that the RNN is applicable for the packet-level modeling task, but it underperforms the HMM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/itl2.147
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
computer networks, hidden Markov model (HMM), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), traffic modeling
Journal
3
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radion Bikmukhamedov100.34
Adel Nadeev212.04
Guido Maione35412.37
Domenico Striccoli4318.13