Accelerating Decision Tree Based Traffic Classification on FPGA and Multicore Platforms

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 28; no. 11; pp. 3046 - 3059
• Main Authors: Da Tong, Qu, Yun Rock, Prasanna, Viktor K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Acceleration; Algorithms; Classification; Classification algorithms; Classifiers; decision tree; Decision trees; Discretization; Field programmable gate arrays; FPGA; high throughput; Machine learning; Machine learning algorithms; multicore; Multicore processing; Platforms; State of the art; Throughput; Traffic classification; Traffic flow

Machine learning (ML) algorithms have been shown to be effective in classifying a broad range of applications in the Internet traffic. In this paper, we propose algorithms and architectures to realize online traffic classification using flow level features. First, we develop a traffic classifier bas...