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most citedLow-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic

53 citations · 61 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.NI2026

Mitigating Proxy-Induced Traffic Drift in Website Fingerprinting via Model-Agnostic Traffic Tailoring

Linxiao Yu, Tianyu Cui, Xinhao Deng +4

Website fingerprinting (WF) based on deep learning can effectively identify websites from encrypted traffic. However, users often rely on proxy protocols to bypass censorship, and…

cs.CR2026

Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era

Yihao Chen, Qi Li, Ke Xu +2

The partial deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) poses an unexpected security threat known as stealthy BGP hijacking, i.e., a particularly elusive form of BGP hijacking wher…

cs.AI2026

TrustedARI: Towards Trust-Native Agentic Routing Infrastructure for Agentic AI

Qi Li, Zhenhua Zou, Shuo Li +2

AI agents increasingly access external models, tools, and services through Agentic Routing Infrastructure (ARI) to manage the overhead of heterogeneous interfaces and fragmented su…

cs.CR2026

Blind Gods and Broken Screens: Architecting a Secure, Intent-Centric Mobile Agent Operating System

Zhenhua Zou, Sheng Guo, Qiuyang Zhan +6

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has shifted mobile computing from App-centric interactions to system-level autonomous agents. Current implementations predominantly re…

cs.NI2025

Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane

Yinchao Zhang, Su Yao, Yong Feng +9

The paradigm of Intelligent DataPlane (IDP) embeds deep learning (DL) models on the network dataplane to enable intelligent traffic analysis at line-speed. However, the current use…

cs.LG2025

TrafficLLM: Enhancing Large Language Models for Network Traffic Analysis with Generic Traffic Representation

Tianyu Cui, Xinjie Lin, Sijia Li +4

Machine learning (ML) powered network traffic analysis has been widely used for the purpose of threat detection. Unfortunately, their generalization across different tasks and unse…

cs.CR2025

Towards Robust Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting

Xinhao Deng, Xiyuan Zhao, Qilei Yin +5

Website fingerprinting enables an eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting (WF) attacks hav…

cs.CR2024

Towards Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting at Scale

Xiyuan Zhao, Xinhao Deng, Qi Li +4

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks can effectively identify the websites visited by Tor clients via analyzing encrypted traffic patterns. Existing attacks focus on identifying dif…

cs.NI2024★ 6 cited

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

Jinzhu Yan, Haotian Xu, Zhuotao Liu +4

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…

cs.LG2024

Defending Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning: An Information Theory Approach

Qi Tan, Qi Li, Yi Zhao +3

Federated Learning (FL) trains a black-box and high-dimensional model among different clients by exchanging parameters instead of direct data sharing, which mitigates the privacy l…

cs.NI2024

Learning with Semantics: Towards a Semantics-Aware Routing Anomaly Detection System

Yihao Chen, Qilei Yin, Qi Li +6

BGP is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol to ensure global connectivity of the Internet. However, various reasons, such as deliberate attacks or misconfigurations, could ca…

cs.CR2023★ 53 cited

Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic

Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng +6

Machine learning (ML) is promising in accurately detecting malicious flows in encrypted network traffic; however, it is challenging to collect a training dataset that contains a su…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Learning from Limited Heterogeneous Training Data: Meta-Learning for Unsupervised Zero-Day Web Attack Detection across Web Domains

Peiyang Li, Ye Wang, Qi Li +5

Recently unsupervised machine learning based systems have been developed to detect zero-day Web attacks, which can effectively enhance existing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Ho…

cs.NI2023

Secure Inter-domain Routing and Forwarding via Verifiable Forwarding Commitments

Xiaoliang Wang, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li +6

The Internet inter-domain routing system is vulnerable. On the control plane, the de facto Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) does not have built-in mechanisms to authenticate routing a…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

martFL: Enabling Utility-Driven Data Marketplace with a Robust and Verifiable Federated Learning Architecture

Qi Li, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu

The development of machine learning models requires a large amount of training data. Data marketplaces are essential for trading high-quality, private-domain data not publicly avai…