Lightweight, Payload-Based Traffic Classification: An Experimental Evaluation

Abstract

With the ever increasing amount of traffic, scalability is probably the most important factor that differentiates several existing approaches to traffic classification. This paper focuses on payload-based classification and compares the results obtained through a "lightweight" traffic classification approach with the ones obtained with a "completely stateful" approach, demonstrating that the first approach, albeit less precise, is still appropriate for a large class of applications.