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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…

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Mobile applications, particularly those from social media platforms such as WeChat and TikTok, are evolving into "super apps" that offer a wide range of services such as instant messaging and media sharing, e-commerce, e-learning, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chao Wang , Yue Zhang , Zhiqiang Lin

Early detection of network intrusions and cyber threats is one of the main pillars of cybersecurity. One of the most effective approaches for this purpose is to analyze network traffic with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Giacomo Zonneveld , Lorenzo Principi , Marco Baldi

Crowdsourcing mobile user's network performance has become an effective way of understanding and improving mobile network performance and user quality-of-experience. However, the current measurement method is still based on the landline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Daoyuan Wu , Rocky K. C. Chang , Weichao Li , Eric K. T. Cheng , Debin Gao

In the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, continuous interaction among a large number of devices generates complex and dynamic network traffic, which poses significant challenges to rule-based detection approaches. Machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Chao Zha , Haolin Pan , Bing Bai , Jiangxing Wu , Ruyun Zhang

We present a new machine learning-based attack that exploits network patterns to detect the presence of smart IoT devices and running services in the WiFi radio spectrum. We perform an extensive measurement campaign of data collection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Gabriele Oligeri , Thiemo Voigt

While the availability of large datasets has been instrumental to advance fields like computer vision and natural language processing, this has not been the case in mobile networking. Indeed, mobile traffic data is often unavailable due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Leonardo Bonati , Ravis Shirkhani , Claudio Fiandrino , Stefano Maxenti , Salvatore D'Oro , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia

Traffic learning and prediction is at the heart of the evaluation of the performance of telecommunications networks and attracts a lot of attention in wired broadband networks. Now, benefiting from the big data in cellular networks, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Jianchao Zheng , Chengli Mei , Yueming Cai , Honggang Zhang

The fact that almost every person owns a smartphone device that can be precisely located is both empowering and worrying. If methods for accurate tracking of devices (and their owners) via WiFi probing are developed in a responsible way,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Syed Salman Alam , Muhammad Al-Qurishi , Riad Souissi

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, smartphones have become essential components of IoT systems. However, with the increasing amount of personal information stored on smartphones, user privacy is at risk of being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Quancheng Wang , Ming Tang , Jianming Fu

Website Fingerprinting (WF) is a type of traffic analysis attack that enables a local passive eavesdropper to infer the victim's activity, even when the traffic is protected by a VPN or an anonymity system like Tor. Leveraging a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Mohsen Imani , Nate Mathews , Matthew Wright

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks identify the websites visited over anonymized connections by analyzing patterns in network traffic flows, such as packet sizes, directions, or interval times using a machine learning classifier. Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chuxu Song , Zining Fan , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Sophisticated traffic analytics, such as the encrypted traffic analytics and unknown malware detection, emphasizes the need for advanced methods to analyze the network traffic. Traditional methods of using fixed patterns, signature…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Kun Qiu , Harry Chang , Ying Wang , Xiahui Yu , Wenjun Zhu , Yingqi Liu , Jianwei Ma , Weigang Li , Xiaobo Liu , Shuo Dai

Modern web applications are dominated by HTTP/HTTPS messages that consist of one or more headers, where most of the exploits and payloads can be injected by attackers. According to the OWASP, the 80 percent of the web attacks are done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tikam Alma , Manik Lal Das

Mobile traffic prediction is a fundamental yet challenging problem for wireless network planning and optimization. Existing models focus on learning static long-term temporal patterns in mobile traffic series, which limits their ability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xiaoqian Qi , Haoye Chai , Yue Wang , Yong Li

Data encryption is the primary method of protecting the privacy of consumer device Internet communications from network observers. The ability to automatically detect unencrypted data in network traffic is therefore an essential tool for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Daniel Hahn , Noah Apthorpe , Nick Feamster

The ability to identify applications based on the network data they generate could be a valuable tool for cyber defense. We report on a machine learning technique capable of using netflow-like features to predict the application that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Justin Allen , David Knapp , Kristine Monteith

We have carefully instrumented a large portion of the population living in a university graduate dormitory by giving participants Android smart phones running our sensing software. In this paper, we propose the novel problem of predicting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Wei Pan , Nadav Aharony , Alex Pentland

Smartphones contain information that is more sensitive and personal than those found on computers and laptops. With an increase in the versatility of smartphone functionality, more data has become vulnerable and exposed to attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Vishwanath Venkatesh , Prasanna D. Kumaran , Joish J Bosco , Pravin R. Kumaar , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

Mobile network performance measurement is important for understanding mobile user experience, problem diagnosis, and service comparison. A number of crowdsourcing measurement apps (e.g., MobiPerf [4, 6] and Netalyzr [5, 7]) have been…

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