Network Traffic Security Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

The illustrious international open-access journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417, IF 2.679) is pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Network Traffic Security Analysis”.

Network traffic security analysis is an essential basis for network security. Traditional network traffic analysis is mainly based on the analysis of plaintext information in traffic. With the improvement of user privacy awareness and data security requirements, encrypted communication technology and security protocols are widely used in network communication, making traffic encryption a general trend. Traffic encryption provides security for users, but it also hides malicious traffic through encryption communication technologies. Malicious traffic even disguises itself as benign traffic, invalidating traditional firewalls or intrusion detection systems. This phenomenon creates new challenges for network security. In addition to encryption, VPN tunnel technology, anonymous network communication technology, and other technologies related to encrypted traffic are being increasingly used by malicious traffic and for illegal network behavior. In addition, network security threats may also exist in the applications and content behind encrypted traffic. Diversified network security threats make network traffic security analysis under encrypted traffic a new key research field.

This Special Issue welcomes theoretical studies on network traffic security analysis and the realization of their engineering systems. We encourage researchers to share new findings and new data sets in the field. This Special Issue is focused on but is not restricted to the following areas related to network traffic security analysis:

• Network measurement;
• Network protocol analysis and reverse engineering;
• Encrypted traffic classification;
• Encrypted traffic content identification;
• Encrypted traffic QoS / QoE;
• VPN traffic analysis;
• Anonymous traffic analysis;
• Encrypted malicious traffic identification;
• Adversarial research in network traffic security analysis.

Prof. Dr. Guang Cheng
Prof. Dr. Shui Yu
Prof. Dr. Yongning Tang
Guest Editors

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