Journal on Communications ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (10): 135-142.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.10.016

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Network protocol identification based on active learning and SVM algorithm

Yi-peng WANG1,2,3,Xiao-chun YUN1,3,Yong-zheng ZHANG3(),Shu-hao LI3   

  1. 1 Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
    3 Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100093,China
  • Online:2013-10-25 Published:2017-08-10
  • Supported by:
    The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program);The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program);The National Science and Technology Support Program;The National Natural Science Founda-tion of China;The National Natural Science Founda-tion of China

Abstract:

Obtaining qualified training data for protocol identif ion generally requires domain experts to be involved,which is time-consuming and laborious.A novel approach for network protocol identification based on active learning and SVM algorithm was proposed.The experimental evaluations on real-world network traces show this approach can accurately and efficiently classify the target network protocol from mixed Internet traffic,and meanwhile display a sig-nificant reduction in the number of labeled samples.Therefore,this approach can be employed as an auxiliary tool for analyzing unknown protocols in real-world environment.

Key words: network security, protocol identification, active learning, network traces, support vector machine

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