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Rapid Detection of Constant-Packet-Rate Flows
March 04-March 07
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ARES.2008.1532008 Third International Conference o ...
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The demand for effective VoIP and online gaming traffic management methods continues to increase for purposes such as QoS provisioning, usage accounting, and blocking VoIP calls or game connections. However, identifying such flows has become a significant administrative burden because many of the applications use proprietary signaling and transport protocols. The question of how to identify proprietary VoIP traffic has yet to be solved. In this paper, we propose using a deviation-based classifier to identify VoIP and gaming traffic, given that such real-time interactive services normally send out constant-packet-rate (CPR) traffic with a fixed interval, in order to maintain real-timeliness and interactivity. Our contribution is two-fold: 1) We show that scale-free variability measures are more appropriate than scaledependent ones for quantifying the network variability injected into CPR traffic. 2) Our proposed classifier is particularly lightweight in that it only requires a few inter-packet times to make a decision. The evaluation results show that by only analyzing 10 successive inter-packet times, we can distinguish between CPR and non-CPR traffic with approximately 90% accuracy.
Index Terms:
Online Gaming, Traffic Analysis, Traffic Classification, Traffic Identification, VoIP
Citation:
Kuan-Ta Chen, Jing-Kai Lou, "Rapid Detection of Constant-Packet-Rate Flows," ares, pp.212-220, 2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008
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