A study of the predictive earliness of traffic flow characterization for software defined networking

  • Hegoi Garitaonandia*
  • , Javier Del Ser
  • , Juanjo Unzilla
  • , Eduardo Jacob
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network paradigm that decouples the control from the data plane in order to provide a more structured approach to develop applications and services. In traditional networks the routing of flows is defined by masks and tends to be rather static. With SDN, the granularity of routing decisions can be downscaled to single TCP sessions, and can be performed dynamically within a single data stream. In this context We propose a novel approach – coined as micro flow aware routing – aimed at implementing routing of flows based on the properties of transport-level information, which is closely related to the type of application. Our proposed scheme relies on the early characterization of the flow based on statistical predictors, which are computed over a time window spanning the first exchanged packets over the session. We evaluate different window lengths over real traffic data to examine the Pareto trade-off between the earliness of flow characterization and its predictive accuracy. These results stimulate further research towards ensuring the practicality of the scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudies in Computational Intelligence
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages393-403
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
Volume798
ISSN (Print)1860-949X

Keywords

  • Internet traffic classification
  • Machine learning
  • Software defined networking
  • Traffic engineering

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