Hiya all,
This is similar to some work being carried out by the WiMAX
Forum at the
moment.
As for the forum, I'd be willing to provide anonymised
output from our
Ellacoya boxes.
--
Leigh
Mark Allman wrote:
>
> Folks-
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to make folks
aware of it and note
> that we'd love to hear some operational experience /
opinion about this
> entire area of trying to figure out what app a given
traffic flow
> involves. (Yes, I understand that at some level it
doesn't matter.)
>
> allman
>
>
>
>
> IMRG Workshop on Application Classification and
Identification (WACI)
>
> There is considerable interest in identifying network
traffic by
> application to support network provisioning, network
security, and
> service quality. Techniques that rely on a well-known
port number
> to identify an application may give a gross notion of
the spread of
> applications, but it is not a reliable means for
application
> identification in the face of evasion. There has been
work in using
> traffic characteristics to construct application
equivalence classes,
> using techniques such as machine learning, principal
component
> analysis, deep packet inspection and others.
> The Workshop on Application Classification and
Identification
> (WACI) aims to bring together the most active
researchers in this
> research area. The main objectives of the one-day
workshop will be
> to discuss recent advancements in this field, discuss
new
> approaches and their implications, and identify open
problems that
> require further research.
>
> Topics of interest (include, but are not limited to):
> - Statistical methods for identifying
application-layer protocols
> - Methods for finding application classes (file
transfer,
> interactive, etc.)
> - Efficient schemes for using deep packet inspection
to identify
> applications
> - Identifying applications within tunnels
> - Identifying rogue/nefarious applications
> - Peer-to-peer application identification
> - Peer-to-peer traffic characterization
>
> Submission instructions
>
> We invite interested researchers to submit a 1-2 page
abstract or
> position statement. Abstracts will be chosen based on
their
> relevance to the area of application identification,
and on the
> diversity of the covered topics. There will be no
full-paper
> submissions or proceedings. Authors of accepted
abstracts however
> should plan to give a 25-minute presentation that will
be posted at
> the workshop's web page (TBA). A significant part of
the workshop
> will be given to discussions and interaction among
participants.
> Submissions must be in electronic form, as plain-text
or PDF (if
> graphs are included) documents, and they should be
submitted by
> e-mail to: Tim Strayer (strayer bbn.com).
>
> Registration
>
> Attendance at this workshop will be by invitation.
Authors of
> submitted abstracts should commit that they will attend
the workshop
> if their abstract is accepted. Others interested in
attending
> should indicate this in email to Tim Strayer
(strayerbbn.com).
> There will be no registration fee.
>
> Important Dates
> - July 1, 2007 - submission of 1-2 pages abstract
> - August 15, 2007 - acceptance notification
> - October 3, 2007 - workshop at BBN Technologies
>
> Workshop Location
>
> WACI will be held at:
> BBN Technologies
> 10 Moulton Street
> Cambridge MA, USA
>
> Organizing and program committee
>
> - Tim Strayer, chair (BBN, strayerbbn.com)
> - Mark Allman (ICIR-ICSI, mallmanacm.org)
> - Grenville Armitage (Swinburne University,
garmitageswin,edu.au)
> - Steve Bellovin (Columbia University, smbcs.columbia.edu)
> - Shudong Jin (Case Western Reserve University,
jinscase.edu)
> - Andrew Moore (CUCL, andrew.moorecl.cam.ac.uk)
>
> Sponsors
>
> The workshop is sponsored by the IRTF's Internet
Measurement
> Research Group and hosted by BBN Technologies.
>
>
>
>
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