Network Traffic Prediction Based on Boosting Learning

Abstract

Classification of network traffic is an important topic for network management, traffic routing, safe traffic discrimination, and better service delivery. Traffic examination is the entire process of examining traffic data, from intercepting traffic data to discovering patterns, relationships, misconfigurations, and anomalies in a network. Between them, traffic classification is a sub-domain of this field, the purpose of which is to classify network traffic into predefined classes such as usual or abnormal traffic and application type. Most Internet applications encrypt data during traffic, and classifying encrypted data during traffic is not possible with traditional methods. Statistical and intelligence methods can find and model traffic patterns that can be categorized based on statistical characteristics. These methods help determine the type of traffic and protect user privacy at the same time. To classify encrypted traffic from end to end, this paper proposes using (XGboost) algorithms, finding the highest parameters using Bayesian optimization, and comparing the proposed model with machine learning algorithms (Nearest Neighbor, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Multilayer Neural Networks) to classify traffic from end to end. Network traffic has two classifications: whether the traffic is encrypted or not, and the target application. The research results showed the possibility of classifying dual and multiple traffic with high accuracy. The proposed model has a higher classification accuracy than the other models, and finding the optimal parameters increases the model accuracy.