Rapid identification of Skype traffic flows
- 3 June 2009
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
In this paper we present results of experimental work using machine learning techniques to rapidly identify Skype traffic. We show that Skype traffic can be identified by observing 5 seconds of a Skype traffic flow, with recall and precision better than 98%. We found the most effective features for classification were characteristic packet lengths less than 80 bytes, statistics of packet lengths greater than 80 bytes and inter-packet arrival times. Our classifiers do not rely on observing any particular part of a flow. We also report on the performance of classifiers built using combinations of two of these features and of each feature in isolationKeywords
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