An efficient flow-based botnet detection using supervised machine learning

2014 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 797-801

  Stevanovic, Matija ^a   Pedersen, Jens Myrup ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Botnet; Botnet detection; Machine learning; Traffic analysis; Traffic classification

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BOTNET; BOTNET DETECTIONS; DETECTION SYSTEM; MALICIOUS TRAFFIC; ON-LINE DETECTION; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84899529303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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