Early Online Classification of Encrypted Traffic Streams using Multi-fractal Features

Timely and accurate flow classification is important for identifying flows with different service requirements, optimized network management, and for helping network operators simultaneously operate networks at higher utilization while providing end users good quality of experience (QoE). With most services starting to use end-to-end encryption (HTTPS and QUIC), traditional Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and port-based approaches are no longer...