Service-based traffic classification: Principles and validation

This paper presents a novel approach in traffic classification that is based on the identification of the service that generates the traffic. This method is, in some sense, orthogonal to current approaches and it can be used as an efficient complement to existing methods to reduce computation and memory requirements. Experimental results on real traffic confirm that this method is extremely effective and may improve considerably the accuracy of traffic classification, while it is suitable to a large number of applications.