Toward systematic methods comparison in traffic classification

A host of methods and algorithms have been proposed to solve the issue of traffic classification in recent years. However, a comparison of results between different studies is very difficult due to the lack of structure and common understanding of notions in the domain, especially a precise definition of application classes. This paper aims to fill this gap and propose a first attempt to systematically classify traffic definitions. To attain this goal, we take advantage of the ontology paradigm.