The identification of the services that generate traffic is crucial for ISPs and companies to
plan and monitor the network. The widespread deployment of encryption and the …

Software defined network (SDN) has enabled consistent and programmable management in
computer networks. However, the explosion of cloud services and content delivery networks …

In an Internet arena where the search engines and other digital marketing firms' revenues
peak, other actors still have open opportunities to monetize their users' data. After the …

As end-to-end encryption on the Internet is becoming more prevalent, techniques such as
deep packet inspection (DPI) can no longer be expected to be able to classify traffic. In many …

Recent surveys show that the proportion of encrypted web traffic is quickly increasing. On
one side, it provides users with essential properties of security and privacy, but on the other …

Many applications and communication protocols exhibit unique communication patterns that
can be exploited to identify them in network traffic. This paper proposes a method to …

The proportion of mobile-device traffic relative to the total Internet traffic has been increasing
as Internet of Things (IoT) devices have spread. Here, if a large number of IoT devices send …

After almost two decades of IPv6 development and consequent efforts to promote its
adoption, the current global share of IPv6 traffic still remains low. Urged by the need to …

Adoption of SSL/TLS to protect the privacy of web users has become increasingly common.
In fact, as of September 2015, more than 68% of top-1M websites deploy SSL/TLS to encrypt …

The monetization of the large amount of data that ISPs have of their users is still in early
stages. Specifically, the knowledge of the websites that specific users or aggregates of users …