A Survey of Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering Approaches, Methods, and Tools on the Inputs and Outputs View

Table 1

Approaches, methods, and tools that focus on reverse engineering PFs; NetT = network traces; ExeT = execution traces.

Approach, method, tool, or author	Year	Input format		Special remarks
		NetT	ExeT
Discoverer [4]	2007	○		PFSM for future work
Polyglot [5]	2007		○	Dispatcher  [6]  1st work
AutoFormat [7]	2008		○	~
Tupni [8]	2008		○	PFSM for future work
ReFormat [9]	2009		○	Decryption before PRE
Prospex [10]	2009	○		Reverse engineers PFSM as well
ProDecoder [11]	2012	○		~
Wang et al. [12]	2013	○		PRE in wireless environment
ProGraph [13]	2015	○		Traffic classification
Cai et al. [14]	2016	○		~
WASp [15]	2016	○		IEEE.802.15.4 wireless protocols