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Network Traffic Classification Techniques: A Review

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Computational Intelligence for Engineering and Management Applications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 984))

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The network traffic classification task is focused on recognizing diverse kinds of applications or traffic data for which the received data packets are analysed that is essential in communication networks in these days. A network controller must have efficient understanding of applications and protocols in the network traffic to deploy the suitable security solutions. In addition, the name or kind of application is recognized and classified in the network for treating some aspects in advance. The process to classify the network traffic has become popular among research community along with the industrial field. A number of schemes have been put forward and constructed over the last two decades. The network traffic can be classified in several stages, in which pre-processing is done, attributes are extracted and classification is performed. The various machine learning models are reviewed in this paper for the network traffic classification.

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  1. Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, India

    Nidhi Bhatla & Meena Malik

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, West Bengal, India

    Prasenjit Chatterjee

  2. Department of Operations Research and Statistics, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dragan Pamucar

  3. Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Morteza Yazdani

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Dilbagh Panchal

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Bhatla, N., Malik, M. (2023). Network Traffic Classification Techniques: A Review. In: Chatterjee, P., Pamucar, D., Yazdani, M., Panchal, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Engineering and Management Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 984. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8493-8_29

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