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F. Constantinou and P. Mavrommatiss, "Identifying Known and Unknown Peer-to-Peer Traffic", in IEEE NCA 2006, Aug 2006.
| Identifying Known and Unknown Peer-to-Peer Traffic | |
| Authors: |
F. Constantinou P. Mavrommatiss |
| Published: | IEEE NCA, 2006 |
| URL: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1659480 |
| Entry Dates: | 2009-02-11 |
| Abstract: | Class-of-service identification is a very useful task for enterprise, university and ISP networks. Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, being a significant portion of the network traffic today, constitutes a highly desirable class for identification. Accurate classification of P2P traffic is a challenging problem, and becomes even more challenging when we are constrained to use only transport-layer header information. In this paper, we present a new approach for P2P traffic identification, that uses fundamental characteristics of P2P protocols, such as a large network diameter and the presence of many hosts acting both as servers and clients. We do not use any application-specific information, but we are however able to identify both known and unknown P2P protocols in a simple and efficient way. |