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International audience; Recent development in smart devices has lead us to an explosion in data generation and heterogeneity, which requires new network solutions for better analysing and understanding traffic. These solutions should be intelligent and scalable in order to handle the huge amount of data automatically. With the progress of high-performance computing (HPC), it becomes feasible easily to deploy machine learning (ML) to solve complex problems and its efficiency has been validated in several domains (e.g., healthcare or computer vision). At the same time, network slicing (NS) has drawn significant attention from both industry and academia as it is essential to address the diversity of service requirements. Therefore, the adoption of ML within NS management is an interesting issue. In this paper, we have focused on analyzing network data with the objective of defining network slices according to traffic flow behaviors. For dimensionality reduction, the feature selection has been applied to select the most relevant features (15 out of 87 features) from a real dataset of more than 3 million instances. Then, a K-Means clustering is applied to better understand and distinguish behaviors of traffic. The results demonstrated a good correlation among instances in the same cluster generated by the unsupervised learning. This solution can be further integrated in a real environment using network function virtualization.

Accepted in IEEE ICC 2021 Workshop on Workshop on Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems (DDINS); The rapid development of smart devices triggers a surge in new traffic and applications. Thus, network traffic classification has become a challenge in modern communications and may be applied to a various range of applications ranging from QoS provisioning to security-related applications. Developing Machine Learning (ML) methods, which can successfully distinguish network applications from each other, is one of the most important tasks. Since ML algorithms are as good as the quality of data, feature selection has become a crucial step in the ML process. Therefore, selecting effective and relevant features for traffic analysis is also another essential issue. In this paper, we are interested in identifying the most relevant features to characterize network traffic. Empirical results indicate that significant input feature selection is important to classify network traffic. Then, a comparative analysis of various Decision Treebased models (both traditional and recent algorithms) has been conducted with feature selection methods in terms of accuracy, training, and classification time.

Accepted at IEEE ICNP HDR-Nets workshop 2020; Network traffic classification is an important task in modern communications. Several approaches have been proposed to improve the performance of differentiating among applications. However, most of them are based on supervised learning where only labeled data are used. In reality, a lot of datasets are partially labeled due to many reasons and unlabeled portions of the data, which can also provide informative characteristics, are ignored. To handle this issue, we propose a semi-supervised approach based on deep learning. We deployed deep learning because of its unique nature for solving problems, and its ability to take into account both labeled and unlabeled data. Moreover, it can also integrate feature extraction and classification into a single model. To achieve these goals, we propose an approach using stacked sparse autoencoder (SSAE) accompanied by de-noising and dropout techniques to improve the robustness of extracted features and prevent the over-fitting problem during the training process. The obtained results demonstrate a better performance than traditional models while keeping the whole procedure automated.

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm that redefines interaction between humans, sensors and flow of data and information. In AmI, environment is more sensitive and more responsive to the user who acts spontaneously in the foreground, while sensors, machines and intelligent methods act in background. Behind the AmI interfaces, a huge volume of data is collected and analysed to make decision in real time. In the field of health care, AmI solutions prevent the patients from emergency situations by using data mining techniques. This paper assess the performance of deep learning against traditional dimensionality reduction and classification algorithms for healthcare monitoring in a hospital environment. An ensemble method is proposed using three classifiers on a reduced version of the dataset, where the dimensionality reduction technique is based on deep learning. The evaluation based on different performance metrics like accuracy, precision, recall and f-measure illustrated reliable performance of the proposed ensemble method.