Bittorrent traffic classification

Bittorrent currently makes up a large proportion of Internet traffic. The main purpose of my project is to attempt to identify Bittorrent traffic from other kinds of traffic (with particular emphasis on FTP which provides similar functionality to BitTorrent in that it is primarily used for large file downloads) using statistical classification techniques. I will show that Bittorrent traffic can be identified efficiently and my method has great potential to classify Bittorrent in real time.