Internet traffic classification using C4.5 decision tree

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2692-2704

  Xu, Peng ^a,b   Lin, Sen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Flow; Network measurement; Statistical attribute; Traffic classification

Indexed keywords

C4.5 DECISION TREE METHOD; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; IMPROVED METHODS; IN-NETWORK; INFORMATION ENTROPY; INTERNET TRAFFIC; MACHINE-LEARNING; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; NEW DIRECTIONS; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING DATA;

DECISION TREES; INTERNET; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 70449707763     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1001.2009.03444     Document Type: Article

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