Classifying internet applications on early stage in 3G environment

Abstract

Application identification plays a crucial role in network management. Among many different approaches introduced in the field, Bernaille et al. [1] introduces connection based clustering to identify applications. In this paper, first four packet sizes with directions are used as a feature set to cluster different applications in wireless environment, which is acclaimed to cluster with 93.7% of accuracy in [1]. However, our experiments not only show that it has low identification accuracy (89.3%), but also show clustering is not suitable for identification of wireless applications.