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In order to maintain consistent quality of service, computer network engineers face the task of monitoring the traffic fluctuations on the individual links making up the network. However, due to resource constraints and limited access, it…

Applications · Statistics 2010-05-26 Joel Vaughan , Stilian A. Stoev , George Michailidis

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

As people's demand for personal privacy and data security becomes a priority, encrypted traffic has become mainstream in the cyber world. However, traffic encryption is also shielding malicious and illegal traffic introduced by adversaries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zihao Wang , Kar-Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Traffic classification, i.e. the identification of the type of applications flowing in a network, is a strategic task for numerous activities (e.g., intrusion detection, routing). This task faces some critical challenges that current deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kevin Fauvel , Fuxing Chen , Dario Rossi

Network traffic data is huge, varying and imbalanced because various classes are not equally distributed. Machine learning (ML) algorithms for traffic analysis uses the samples from this data to recommend the actions to be taken by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Raman Singh , Harish Kumar , R. K. Singla

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

We have developed a new framework using time-series analysis for dynamically assigning mobile network traffic prediction models in previously unseen wireless environments. Our framework selectively employs learned behaviors, outperforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Alexander Downey , Evren Tuna , Alkan Soysal

Motivated by the need for accurate traffic flow prediction in transportation management, we propose a functional data method to analyze traffic flow patterns and predict future traffic flow. In this study we approach the problem by sampling…

Applications · Statistics 2013-01-14 Jeng-Min Chiou

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

Network traffic classification has been widely studied to fundamentally advance network measurement and management. Machine Learning is one of the effective approaches for network traffic classification. Specifically, Deep Learning (DL) has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jielun Zhang , Fuhao Li , Feng Ye , Hongyu Wu

Traffic classification, a technique for assigning network flows to predefined categories, has been widely deployed in enterprise and carrier networks. With the massive adoption of mobile devices, encryption is increasingly used in mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kun Qiu , Ying Wang , Baoqian Li , Wenjun Zhu

With the growing significance of network security, the classification of encrypted traffic has emerged as an urgent challenge. Traditional byte-based traffic analysis methods are constrained by the rigid granularity of information and fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Haozhen Zhang , Haodong Yue , Xi Xiao , Le Yu , Qing Li , Zhen Ling , Ye Zhang

The widespread adoption of encrypted communication protocols such as HTTPS and TLS has enhanced data privacy but also rendered traditional anomaly detection techniques less effective, as they often rely on inspecting unencrypted payloads.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Kalindi Singh , Aayush Kashyap , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Traffic prediction plays a vital role in efficient planning and usage of network resources in wireless networks. While traffic prediction in wired networks is an established field, there is a lack of research on the analysis of traffic in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Amin Azari , Panagiotis Papapetrou , Stojan Denic , Gunnar Peters

Network traffic classification is an important part of network monitoring and network management. Three traditional methods for network traffic classification are flow-based, session-based, and packet-based, while flow-based and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yahui Hu , Ziqian Zeng , Junping Song , Luyang Xu , Xu Zhou

Network management often relies on machine learning to make predictions about performance and security from network traffic. Often, the representation of the traffic is as important as the choice of the model. The features that the model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Francesco Bronzino , Paul Schmitt , Sara Ayoubi , Hyojoon Kim , Renata Teixeira , Nick Feamster

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

We study the analysis of all the movements of the population on the basis of their mobility from one node to another, to observe, measure, and predict the impact of traffic according to this mobility. The frequency of congestion on roads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-14 Henock M. Mboko , Mouhamadou A. M. T. Balde , Babacar M. Ndiaye

Autonomous systems, like vehicles or robots, require reliable, accurate, fast, resource-efficient, scalable, and low-latency trajectory predictions to get initial knowledge about future locations and movements of surrounding objects for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Manuel Hetzel , Hannes Reichert , Konrad Doll , Bernhard Sick

Network traffic classification, which has numerous applications from security to billing and network provisioning, has become a cornerstone of today's computer networks. Previous studies have developed traffic classification techniques…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu