Machine Learning in Software Defined Networks: Data collection and traffic classification

Amaral, Pedro; Dinis, Jorge; Pinto, Paulo; Bernardo, Luís; Tavares, João Manuel R. S.; Mamede, Henrique São

doi:10.1109/icnp.2016.7785327

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“…In [34] the authors present an architecture to collect traffic data from OpenFlow switches and use the collected data to classify such traffic as belonging to certain well-known applications. In [35] the author uses machine learning and OpenFlow in the design and implementation of a traffic classification system that accurately classifies traffic without affecting the latency or bandwidth in the data plane.…”

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We estimate end-to-end service metrics from network device statistics. Our approach is based upon statistical, supervised learning, whereby the mapping from device-level to service-level metrics is learned from observations, i.e., through monitoring the system. The approach enables end-to-end performance prediction without requiring an explicit model of the system, which is different from traditional engineering techniques that use stochastic modeling and simulation. The fact that end-to-end service metrics can be estimated from local network statistics with good accuracy in the scenarios we consider suggests that service-level properties are ''encoded'' in network-level statistics. We show that the set of network statistics needed for estimation can be reduced to a set of measurements along the network path between client and service backend, with little loss in estimation accuracy. The reported work is largely experimental and its results have been obtained through testbed measurements from a video streaming service and a KV store over an OpenFlow network .

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“…To achieve the application awareness, the C4.5 decision tree algorithm was used to build the application classifier, and the machine learning–based trainer and classifier were integrated in the controller because of a global view and the logically centralized control capability. Amaral et al presented a novel machine learning–based data collection and traffic classification architecture, which could be applied to legacy network and SDN network. In this architecture, the controller collected the flow statistics from the switches and then used the supervised machine learning algorithm to classify traffic.…”

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“…In recent years, many research works have already applied machine learning methods in network application classification. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]23,24 Most of them are focused on improving the machine learning algorithm and feature selection since the selected features and machine learning algorithm have a great effect on the classifier's performance.…”

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“…To achieve accurate network applications, a large number of different application classification methods have been proposed in the past few decades, mainly including port‐based approach, payload‐based approach, and machine learning–based approach . In current years, the most widely used technology for application classification is the machine learning–based approach, in which backpropagation (BP) neural network, Bayesian network, support vector machine (SVM), and C4.5 decision tree are usually applied to the classification …”

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“…2 In current years, the most widely used technology for application classification is the machine learning-based approach, in which backpropagation (BP) neural network, Bayesian network, support vector machine (SVM), and C4.5 decision tree are usually applied to the classification. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Different from identifying port number in the port-based approach as well as inspecting payload content in the payload-based approach, in machine learning-based classification methods, the flow features statistics, including the size of packet, interpacket time, and flow duration time, are used to automatically identify and classify network application by using machine learning. The shallow neural network is generally used to build the application classifier in lots of machine learning-based classification methods.…”

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