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Despite the widespread use of encryption techniques to provide confidentiality over Internet communications, mobile device users are still susceptible to privacy and security risks. In this paper, a new Deep Neural Network (DNN) based user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Madushi H. Pathmaperuma , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Safak Dogan , Ahmet M. Kondoz , Rongxing Lu

Automated service classification plays a crucial role in service discovery, selection, and composition. Machine learning has been widely used for service classification in recent years. However, the performance of conventional machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yilong Yang , Nafees Qamar , Peng Liu , Katarina Grolinger , Weiru Wang , Zhi Li , Zhifang Liao

With the advent of Software Defined Networks (SDNs), there has been a rapid advancement in the area of cloud computing. It is now scalable, cheaper, and easier to manage. However, SDNs are more prone to security vulnerabilities as compared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Mahmoud Said Elsayed , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Soumyabrata Dev , Anca Delia Jurcut

Network neutrality is related to the non-discriminatory treatment of packets on the Internet. Any deliberate discrimination of traffic of one application while favoring others violates the principle of neutrality. Many countries have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Vinod S. Khandkar , Manjesh K. Hanawal

Given the increased growing of Internet of Things networks and their presence in critical aspects of human activities, the security of devices connected to these networks becomes critical. Machine Learning approaches are becoming prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jhon Alexánder Parra , Sergio Armando Gutiérrez , John Willian Branch

Network traffic classification (NTC) is vital for efficient network management, security, and performance optimization, particularly with 5G/6G technologies. Traditional methods, such as deep packet inspection (DPI) and port-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ehsan Eslami , Walaa Hamouda

This paper presents a deep-learning based traffic classification method for identifying multiple streaming video sources at the same time within an encrypted tunnel. The work defines a novel feature inspired by Natural Language Processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yan Shi , Dezhi Feng , Subir Biswas

Modeling network traffic is gaining importance in order to counter modern threats of ever increasing sophistication. It is though surprisingly difficult and costly to construct reliable classifiers on top of telemetry data due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Tomas Pevny , Petr Somol

In this paper, we introduce a novel end-to-end traffic classification method to distinguish between traffic classes including VPN traffic in three layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. Classification of VPN traffic is not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ali Parchekani , Salar Nouri , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

We present a study of deep learning applied to the domain of network traffic data forecasting. This is a very important ingredient for network traffic engineering, e.g., intelligent routing, which can optimize network performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Benedikt Pfülb , Christoph Hardegen , Alexander Gepperth , Sebastian Rieger

The popularity of encryption mechanisms poses a great challenge to malicious traffic detection. The reason is traditional detection techniques cannot work without the decryption of encrypted traffic. Currently, research on encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Zihao Wang , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Existing website fingerprinting and traffic classification solutions do not work well when the evaluation context changes, as their performances often heavily rely on context-specific assumptions. To clarify this problem, we take three…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Elham Akbari , Zihao Zhou , Mohammad Ali Salahuddin , Noura Limam , Raouf Boutaba , Bertrand Mathieu , Stephanie Moteau , Stephane Tuffin

Accurately classifying the application types of network traffic using deep learning models has recently gained popularity. However, we find that these classifiers do not perform well on real-world traffic data due to the presence of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Eun Hun Choi , Jasleen Kaur , Vladas Pipiras , Nelson Gomes Rodrigues Antunes , Brendan Massey

The recent success and proliferation of machine learning and deep learning have provided powerful tools, which are also utilized for encrypted traffic analysis, classification, and threat detection in computer networks. These methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jan Luxemburk , Tomáš Čejka

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the performance and efficiency of traffic classification in networking systems. However, the lack of transparency in their predictions and decision-making has made network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riya Ponraj , Ram Durairajan , Yu Wang

Internet of Things (IoT) has brought along immense benefits to our daily lives encompassing a diverse range of application domains that we regularly interact with, ranging from healthcare automation to transport and smart environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mengmeng Ge , Naeem Firdous Syed , Xiping Fu , Zubair Baig , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are used to monitor networks or systems for attack activity or policy violations. Such a system should be able to successfully identify anomalous deviations from normal traffic behavior. Here we discuss the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 M. Andrecut

The network traffic classification allows improving the management, and the network services offer taking into account the kind of application. The future network architectures, mainly mobile networks, foresee intelligent mechanisms in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rodrigo Moreira , Larissa Ferreira Rodrigues , Pedro Frosi Rosa , Flávio de Oliveira Silva

The primary objective of an anonymity tool is to protect the anonymity of its users through the implementation of strong encryption and obfuscation techniques. As a result, it becomes very difficult to monitor and identify users activities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Javeriah Saleem , Rafiqul Islam , Zahidul Islam

The automatic classification of applications and services is an invaluable feature for new generation mobile networks. Here, we propose and validate algorithms to perform this task, at runtime, from the raw physical channel of an operative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Hoang Duy Trinh , Angel Fernandez Gambin , Lorenza Giupponi , Michele Rossi , Paolo Dini