Passive TCP Identification for Wired and WirelessNetworks: A Long-Short Term Memory Approach
This addresses network efficiency improvements for network administrators and researchers, but is incremental as it builds on existing machine learning methods.
The paper tackled the problem of identifying TCP congestion control algorithms in both wired and wireless networks, achieving over 98% accuracy using a 4-layer LSTM model that works for newly proposed algorithms.
Transmission control protocol (TCP) congestion control is one of the key techniques to improve network performance. TCP congestion control algorithm identification (TCP identification) can be used to significantly improve network efficiency. Existing TCP identification methods can only be applied to limited number of TCP congestion control algorithms and focus on wired networks. In this paper, we proposed a machine learning based passive TCP identification method for wired and wireless networks. After comparing among three typical machine learning models, we concluded that the 4-layers Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model achieves the best identification accuracy. Our approach achieves better than 98% accuracy in wired and wireless networks and works for newly proposed TCP congestion control algorithms.