Summary of Estimating the Number Of Http/3 Responses in Quic Using Deep Learning, by Barak Gahtan et al.
Estimating the Number of HTTP/3 Responses in QUIC Using Deep Learning
by Barak Gahtan, Robert J. Shahla, Reuven Cohen, Alex M. Bronstein
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method estimates the number of HTTP/3 responses in a given QUIC connection by an observer. This estimation reveals server behavior, client-server interactions, and data transmission efficiency, which is crucial for various applications such as designing a load balancing solution and detecting HTTP/3 flood attacks. The scheme transforms QUIC connection traces into image sequences and uses machine learning models to predict response counts. Evaluations on more than seven million images-derived from 100,000 traces collected across 44,000 websites over four months-achieve up to 97% accuracy in both known and unknown server settings and 92% accuracy on previously unseen complete QUIC traces. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary QUIC is a new transport protocol that enhances TCP with improved security, performance, and stream multiplexing. However, this also poses challenges for network middle-boxes that need to monitor web traffic. The paper proposes a method to estimate the number of HTTP/3 responses in a QUIC connection by an observer. This helps understand server behavior, client-server interactions, and data transmission efficiency, which is important for designing load balancing solutions and detecting flood attacks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning
