Abstract:Due to the fact that the nature of network traffic is not fully and understood, large-scale, high-speed network traffic anomaly detection in an idea is a difficult problem to solve. According to the analysis of the network traffic structure and traffic information structure, it is found that in a certain range, the IP address and port distributions exhibit heavy tail and self-similar characteristics. The normal network traffic has a relatively stable structure. This structure corresponds to a more stable value of information entropy. Abnormal traffic and sample traffic of information entropy fluctuates by using the normal traffic as the center, and forms the structure of spatial information of IP, port, and IP number of active dimensions. Based on this discovery, the paper proposes a novel traffic classification algorithm, based on support vector machine (SVM) method, that transforms the traffic anomaly detection issue to a SVM-based classification decision issue. The experimental results not only evaluate its accuracy and efficiency, but also show its ability to detect on sampled traffic, which is very important for the traffic data reduction and efficient anomaly detection of high speed networks.