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The increasing automation of traffic management systems has made them prime targets for cyberattacks, disrupting urban mobility and public safety. Traditional network-layer defenses are often inaccessible to transportation agencies,…

While smartphones and WiFi networks are bringing many positive changes to people's lives, they are susceptible to traffic analysis attacks, which infer user's private information from encrypted traffic. Existing traffic analysis attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaoguang Yang , Yong Huang , Junli Guo , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang

The unreal high flows may appear on the actually congested links in the result when a monotonically increasing link travel time function of flow volume is adopted in traffic assignment. The fixed link flow results of a static traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Shengxue He

Networks play a central role in modern data analysis, enabling us to reason about systems by studying the relationships between their parts. Most often in network analysis, the edges are given. However, in many systems it is difficult or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-06 Scott W. Linderman , Ryan P. Adams

A multiflow in a planar graph is uncrossed if its support paths do not cross. Recently such flows have played a role in approximation algorithms for maximum disjoint paths in "fully-planar" instances, where the combined supply-demand graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chandra Chekuri , Guyslain Naves , Joseph Poremba , F. Bruce Shepherd

We propose a new framework to estimate the evolution of an ensemble of indistinguishable agents on a hidden Markov chain using only aggregate output data. This work can be viewed as an extension of the recent developments in optimal mass…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

As the Internet rapidly expands, the increasing complexity and diversity of network activities pose significant challenges to effective network governance and security regulation. Network traffic, which serves as a crucial data carrier of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jiajun Zhou , Wentao Fu , Hao Song , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly adopted as a decentralized machine learning paradigm due to its capability to preserve data privacy by training models without centralizing user data. However, FL is susceptible to indirect privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Md Nahid Hasan Shuvo , Moinul Hossain

eBPF is a new technology which allows dynamically loading pieces of code into the Linux kernel. It can greatly speed up networking since it enables the kernel to process certain packets without the involvement of a userspace program. So far…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Maximilian Bachl , Joachim Fabini , Tanja Zseby

Identifying threats in a network traffic flow which is encrypted is uniquely challenging. On one hand it is extremely difficult to simply decrypt the traffic due to modern encryption algorithms. On the other hand, passing such an encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Syed Muhammad Kumail Raza , Juan Caballero

In recent years, the digitization and automation of anti-financial crime (AFC) investigative processes have faced significant challenges, particularly the need for interpretability of AI model results and the lack of labeled data for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Arthur Capozzi , Salvatore Vilella , Dario Moncalvo , Marco Fornasiero , Valeria Ricci , Silvia Ronchiadin , Giancarlo Ruffo

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved superior accuracy in many visual related tasks. However, the inference process through intermediate layers is opaque, making it difficult to interpret such networks or develop trust in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yael Konforti , Alon Shpigler , Boaz Lernerand Aharon Bar-Hillel

Network management and security is currently one of the most vibrant research areas, among which, research on detecting and identifying anomalies has attracted a lot of interest. Researchers are still struggling to find an effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Huy Nguyen , Tam Van Nguyen , Dong Il Kim , Deokjai Choi

This work presents mixed variational flows (MixFlows), a new variational family that consists of a mixture of repeated applications of a map to an initial reference distribution. First, we provide efficient algorithms for i.i.d. sampling,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Zuheng Xu , Naitong Chen , Trevor Campbell

Data representation plays a critical role in the performance of novelty detection (or ``anomaly detection'') methods in machine learning. The data representation of network traffic often determines the effectiveness of these models as much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kun Yang , Samory Kpotufe , Nick Feamster

In this paper, we present a novel encrypted traffic classification model that operates directly on raw PCAP data without requiring prior assumptions about traffic type. Unlike existing methods, it is generalizable across multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Federica Bianchi , Edoardo Di Paolo , Angelo Spognardi

In the maximum coverage problem we are given $d$ subsets from a universe $[n]$, and the goal is to output $k$ subsets such that their union covers the largest possible number of distinct items. We present the first algorithm for maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Alina Ene , Alessandro Epasto , Vahab Mirrokni , Hoai-An Nguyen , Huy L. Nguyen , David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong

In this paper, a new routing algorithm based on a flooding method is introduced. Flooding techniques have been used previously, e.g. for broadcasting the routing table in the ARPAnet [1] and other special purpose networks [3][4][5].…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jaihyung Cho , James Breen

Advances in computational science offer a principled pipeline for predictive modeling of cardiovascular flows and aspire to provide a valuable tool for monitoring, diagnostics and surgical planning. Such models can be nowadays deployed on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Georgios Kissas , Yibo Yang , Eileen Hwuang , Walter R. Witschey , John A. Detre , Paris Perdikaris