2018/12/24 by Lei Bai, Bai, Lei, Lina Yao +7 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.09882
openalex publication_date 2018/12/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
With the widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT), billions of everyday objects are being connected to the Internet. Effective management of these devices to support reliable, secure and high quality applications becomes challenging due to the scale. As one of the key cornerstones of IoT device management, automatic cross-device classification aims to identify the semantic type of a device by analyzing its network traffic. It has the potential to underpin a broad range of novel features such as enhanced security (by imposing the appropriate rules for constraining the communications of certain types of devices) or context-awareness (by the utilization and interoperability of IoT devices and their high-level semantics) of IoT applications. We propose an automatic IoT device classification method to identify new and unseen devices. The method uses the rich information carried by the traffic flows of IoT networks to characterize the attributes of various devices. We first specify a set of discriminating features from raw network traffic flows, and then propose a LSTM-CNN cascade model to automatically identify the semantic type of a device. Our experimental results using a real-world IoT dataset demonstrate that our proposed method is capable of delivering satisfactory performance. We also present interesting insights and discuss the potential extensions and applications.