Presentation 2017-12-14
Identification of Applications on Smartphone by Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai, Kozo Satoda,
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Abstract(in English) Requirements of smartphone users shift from the quality of service, i.e., throughput, to the quality of applications . Moreover the communication traffic is always encrypted in order to protect the personal information. Given the facts, it is important for the network operators to control the encrypted traffic to satisfy the requirements of smartphone users. In this paper, we propose a new scheme to identify applications on smartphone by analyzing the characteristics of encrypted traffic without packets inspection. Our proposed scheme represents the time-series data of encrypted traffic as a probabilistic states transition model. Moreover the model enables to estimate the transition timing of applications from the time-series data and then enables to identify the applications accurately. We evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme by analyzing the traffic data that a smartphone user watches some movies and browses some web pages.
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Keyword(in English) Encrypted traffic / Traffic analysis / States transition model / Identification of application
Paper # NS2017-126
Date of Issue 2017-12-07 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee RCS / NS
Conference Date 2017/12/14(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Aster Plaza
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Mobile Ad-hoc Network, Ubiquitous Network, Wireless Communication, security, Multi-Access Network
Chair Hidekazu Murata(Kyoto Univ.) / Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.)
Vice Chair Yukitoshi Sanada(Keio Univ.) / Eisuke Fukuda(Fujitsu Labs.) / Satoshi Suyama(NTT DoCoMo) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT)
Secretary Yukitoshi Sanada(Toshiba) / Eisuke Fukuda(Hokkaido Univ.) / Satoshi Suyama(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT)
Assistant Tetsuya Yamamoto(Panasonic) / Koichi Ishihara(NTT) / Kazushi Muraoka(NEC) / Shinsuke Ibi(Osaka Univ.) / Hiroshi Nishimoto(Mitsubishi Electric) / Kenichi Kashibuchi(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems / Technical Committee on Network Systems
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Identification of Applications on Smartphone by Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Encrypted traffic
Keyword(2) Traffic analysis
Keyword(3) States transition model
Keyword(4) Identification of application
1st Author's Name Anan Sawabe
1st Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
2nd Author's Name Takanori Iwai
2nd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
3rd Author's Name Kozo Satoda
3rd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC)
Date 2017-12-14
Paper # NS2017-126
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) NS-351
Page pp.pp.1-6(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-12-07 (NS)