Deep learning and pre-training technology for encrypted traffic classification: A comprehensive review

W Dong, J Yu, X Lin, G Gou, G **ong - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Network traffic classification has long been a pivotal topic in network security. In the past two
decades, methods like port-based classification, deep packet inspection, and machine …

{Brain-on-Switch}: Towards Advanced Intelligent Network Data Plane via {NN-Driven} Traffic Analysis at {Line-Speed}

J Yan, H Xu, Z Liu, Q Li, K Xu, M Xu, J Wu - 21st USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
The emerging programmable networks sparked significant research on Intelligent Network
Data Plane (INDP), which achieves learning-based traffic analysis at line-speed. Prior art in …

MFT: A novel memory flow transformer efficient intrusion detection method

X Jiang, L Xu, L Yu, X Fang - Computers & Security, 2025 - Elsevier
Intrusion detection is a critical field in network security research that is devoted to detecting
malicious traffic or attacks on networks. Even with the advances in today's Internet …

A novel self-supervised framework based on masked autoencoder for traffic classification

R Zhao, M Zhan, X Deng, F Li, Y Wang… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic classification is a critical task in network security and management. Recent research
has demonstrated the effectiveness of the deep learning-based traffic classification method …

The current research status of AI-based network security situational awareness

M Wang, G Song, Y Yu, B Zhang - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Network security situational awareness is based on the extraction and analysis of big data,
and by understanding these data to evaluate the current network security status and predict …

TLS-MHSA: An efficient detection model for encrypted malicious traffic based on multi-head self-attention mechanism

J Chen, L Song, S Cai, H **e, S Yin… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol to protect communication
information has become increasingly popular as users are more aware of network security …

SAT-Net: A staggered attention network using graph neural networks for encrypted traffic classification

Z Li, H Zhao, J Zhao, Y Jiang, F Bu - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2025 - Elsevier
With the increasing complexity of network protocol traffic in the modern network
environment, the task of traffic classification is facing significant challenges. Existing …

Mcre: A unified framework for handling malicious traffic with noise labels based on multidimensional constraint representation

Q Yuan, G Gou, Y Zhu, Y Zhu, G **ong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the limitations of the existing annotation methods, the prevalence of label noise can
be caused in realistic malicious traffic datasets, which has a significant impact on the training …

Knowing the unknowns: Network traffic detection with open-set semi-supervised learning

R Chen, L Luo, X Wang, B Ren, D Guo, S Zhu - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Network traffic classification plays a crucial role in network security and network quality of
service. The new emerging traffic data in the real world is unlabeled and may contain …