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Network threat detection has been challenging due to the complexities of attack activities and the limitation of historical threat data to learn from. To help enhance the existing practices of using analytics, machine learning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Lili Zhang , Quanyan Zhu , Herman Ray , Ying Xie

Applications such as virtual reality and online gaming require low delays for acceptable user experience. A key task for over-the-top (OTT) service providers who provide these applications is sending traffic through the networks to minimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shenghe Xu , Murali Kodialam , T. V. Lakshman , Shivendra S. Panwar

Encrypted network traffic Classification tackles the problem from different approaches and with different goals. One of the common approaches is using Machine learning or Deep Learning-based solutions on a fixed number of classes, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Amir Lukach , Ran Dubin , Amit Dvir , Chen Hajaj

Class-of-service (CoS) network traffic classification (NTC) classifies a group of similar traffic applications. The CoS classification is advantageous in resource scheduling for Internet service providers and avoids the necessity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Yoga Suhas Kuruba Manjunath , Sihao Zhao , Hatem Abou-zeid , Akram Bin Sediq , Ramy Atawia , Xiao-Ping Zhang

This paper investigates, from information theoretic grounds, a learning problem based on the principle that any regularity in a given dataset can be exploited to extract compact features from data, i.e., using fewer bits than needed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Matías Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida

Foundation models have shown great promise in various fields of study. A potential application of such models is in computer network traffic analysis, where these models can grasp the complexities of network traffic dynamics and adapt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Louis Van Langendonck , Ismael Castell-Uroz , Pere Barlet-Ros

The usage of the mobile app is unassailable in this digital era. While tons of data are generated daily, user privacy security concerns become an important issue. Nowadays, tons of techniques, such as machine learning and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Lichun Gao , Mingjie Zeng , Zhanhong Huang

Gisting (Mu et al., 2023) is a simple method for training models to compress information into fewer token representations using a modified attention mask, and can serve as an economical approach to training Transformer-based hypernetworks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jason Phang

While pre-trained large models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in network traffic analysis, their prohibitive computational costs hinder deployment in real-time, throughput-sensitive network defense environments. This work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jiajun Zhou , Changhui Sun , Meng Shen , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

The deployment of modern network applications is increasing the network size and traffic volumes at an unprecedented pace. Storing network-related information (e.g., traffic traces) is key to enable efficient network management. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Paul Almasan , Krzysztof Rusek , Shihan Xiao , Xiang Shi , Xiangle Cheng , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

As recommendation services scale rapidly and their deployment now commonly involves resource-constrained edge devices, GNN-based recommender systems face significant challenges, including high embedding storage costs and runtime latency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xurong Liang , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin

As the complexity and scale of modern computer networks continue to increase, there has emerged an urgent need for precise traffic analysis, which plays a pivotal role in cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies. This study focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Khuong N. Nguyen , Abhishek Sehgal , Yuming Zhu , Junsu Choi , Guanbo Chen , Hao Chen , Boon Loong Ng , Charlie Zhang

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

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

In today's day and age, a mobile phone has become a basic requirement needed for anyone to thrive. With the cellular traffic demand increasing so dramatically, it is now necessary to accurately predict the user traffic in cellular networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Nikhil Nayak , Rujula Singh R , Rameshwar Garg , Varun Danda , Chandana Kiran , Kaustuv Saha

Accurate inference of fine-grained traffic flow from coarse-grained one is an emerging yet crucial problem, which can help greatly reduce the number of the required traffic monitoring sensors for cost savings. In this work, we notice that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lingbo Liu , Mengmeng Liu , Guanbin Li , Ziyi Wu , Junfan Lin , Liang Lin

Fast and efficient transport protocols are the foundation of an increasingly distributed world. The burden of continuously delivering improved communication performance to support next-generation applications and services, combined with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Raffaele Galliera , Alessandro Morelli , Roberto Fronteddu , Niranjan Suri

The continual growth of high speed networks is a challenge for real-time network analysis systems. The real time traffic classification is an issue for corporations and ISPs (Internet Service Providers). This work presents the design and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Silas Santiago Lopes Pereira , José Everardo Bessa Maia , Jorge Luiz de Castro e Silva

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has introduced significant challenges to privacy, particularly as network traffic analysis techniques evolve. While encryption protects data content, traffic attributes such as packet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Daniel Adu Worae , Spyridon Mastorakis

Cyber-attacks continue to grow, both in terms of volume and sophistication. This is aided by an increase in available computational power, expanding attack surfaces, and advancements in the human understanding of how to make attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Hanan Hindy , Robert Atkinson , Christos Tachtatzis , Ethan Bayne , Miroslav Bures , Xavier Bellekens