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BitCoding: Network Traffic Classification Through Encoded Bit Level Signatures
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DOI：10.1109/TNET.2018.2868816.png)
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With many network protocols using obfuscation techniques to hide their identity, robust methods of traffic classification are required. In traditional deep-packet-inspection (DPI) methods, application specific signatures are generated with byte-level data from payload. Increasingly new data formats are being used to encode the application protocols with bit-level information which render the byte-level signatures ineffective. In this paper, we describe BitCoding a bit-level DPI-based signature generation technique. BitCoding uses only a small number of initial bits from a flow and identify invariant bits as signature. Subsequently, these bit signatures are encoded and transformed into a newly defined state transition machine transition constrained counting automata. While short signatures are efficient for processing, this will increase the chances of collision and cross signature matching with increase in number of signatures (applications). We describe a method for signature similarity detection using a variant of Hamming distance and propose to increase the length of signatures for a subset of protocols to avoid overlaps. We perform extensive experiments with three different data sets consisting of 537380 flows with a packet count of 3445969 and show that, BitCoding has very good detection performance across different types of protocols (text, binary, and proprietary) making it protocol-type agnostic. Further, to understand the portability of signatures generated we perform cross evaluation, i.e., signatures generated from one site are used for testing with data from other sites to conclude that it will lead to a small compromise in detection performance.
Keywords:
Traffic classification
DPI
bit-level signatures
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