Classification of network traffic via packet-level hidden markov models

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2138-2142

  Dainotti, Alberto ^a   De Donato, Walter ^a   Pescapè, Antonio ^a   Rossi, Pierluigi Salvo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC; INTER-PACKET TIME; MATHEMATICAL DETAILS; MSN MESSENGER; MULTI-CLASSIFICATION; NETWORK GAME; NETWORK TRAFFIC; PACKET SIZE; PEER TO PEER; REAL NETWORKS; REAL TRAFFIC; RESEARCH AREAS; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION;

AD HOC NETWORKS; GAME THEORY; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PUBLIC WORKS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 67249118576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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