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Encrypted Network Traffic Generation Using a Conditional Diffusion Model

  • Yansong Li,
  • Shuren Liu,
  • Yanan Li,
  • Xiangyang Zhang and ,
  • Wuyang Yang and
  • Jiarun Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2026

Decentralized applications (DApps) have developed rapidly owing to their censorship resistance, user autonomy, and distributed architecture. However, privacy and regulatory restrictions can limit access to representative traffic samples, while class...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2026

Diffusion models have been widely used in image generation and structured trajectory generation. DPM++ samplers improve few-step inference by recursively propagating current and historical denoised states, but their behavior in the low-noise regime r...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,623 Views
17 Pages

CTTGAN: Traffic Data Synthesizing Scheme Based on Conditional GAN

  • Jiayu Wang,
  • Xuehu Yan,
  • Lintao Liu,
  • Longlong Li and
  • Yongqiang Yu

13 July 2022

Most machine learning algorithms only have a good recognition rate on balanced datasets. However, in the field of malicious traffic identification, benign traffic on the network is far greater than malicious traffic, and the network traffic dataset i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,163 Views
15 Pages

Traffic Accident Data Generation Based on Improved Generative Adversarial Networks

  • Zhijun Chen,
  • Jingming Zhang,
  • Yishi Zhang and
  • Zihao Huang

27 August 2021

For urban traffic, traffic accidents are the most direct and serious risk to people’s lives, and rapid recognition and warning of traffic accidents is an important remedy to reduce their harmful effects. However, research scholars are often confronte...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,053 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2022

In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet services in all walks of life, a large number of malicious acts such as network attacks, data leakage, and information theft have become major challenges for network security. Due to the difficu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Mathematical Methods in Information Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,731 Views
13 Pages

TLTD: A Testing Framework for Learning-Based IoT Traffic Detection Systems

  • Xiaolei Liu,
  • Xiaosong Zhang,
  • Nadra Guizani,
  • Jiazhong Lu and ,
  • Qingxin Zhu and
  • Xiaojiang Du
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 August 2018

With the popularization of IoT (Internet of Things) devices and the continuous development of machine learning algorithms, learning-based IoT malicious traffic detection technologies have gradually matured. However, learning-based IoT traffic detecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Networks for Collaborative and Secure Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,713 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2023

Traffic loads are the primary external loads on bridges during their service life. However, an accurate analysis of the long-term effect of the operating traffic load is difficult because of the diversity of traffic flow in terms of vehicle type and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Computation, Data Analysis and Software in Mathematics and Engineering, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,984 Views
19 Pages

Diffusion–Attention Traffic Generation: Traffic Generation Based on the Fusion of a Diffusion Model and a Self-Attention Mechanism

  • Ziyi Wang,
  • Zhenyu Guan,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Mengyan Qiao and ,
  • Xuan Sun and
  • Jun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Network traffic generation technology plays a critical role in network testing and security protection. It simulates various network traffic patterns, offering intrusion detection systems with diverse samples. These samples enhance the system’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
558 Views
32 Pages

3 June 2026

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the increase in the frequency of cyberattacks, accurate identification of IoT end devices is critical to their security. Existing identification methods are based on raw, statistical, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,559 Views
22 Pages

A substantial amount of money and time is required to optimize resources in a massive Wi-Fi network in a real-world environment. Therefore, to reduce cost, proposed algorithms are first verified through simulations before implementing them in a real-...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,507 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2025

With the proliferation of mobile terminals and the rapid growth of network applications, fine-grained traffic identification has become increasingly challenging. Methods based on machine learning and deep learning have achieved remarkable results, bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communications and Networking Based on Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,777 Views
24 Pages

AI-Based Malicious Encrypted Traffic Detection in 5G Data Collection and Secure Sharing

  • Gang Han,
  • Haohe Zhang,
  • Zhongliang Zhang,
  • Yan Ma and
  • Tiantian Yang

With the development and widespread application of network information, new technologies led by 5G are emerging, resulting in an increasingly complex network security environment and more diverse attack methods. Unlike traditional networks, 5G networ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,809 Views
21 Pages

The Urban Intersection Accident Detection Method Based on the GAN-XGBoost and Shapley Additive Explanations Hybrid Model

  • Zhongji Shi,
  • Yingping Wang,
  • Dong Guo,
  • Fangtong Jiao and ,
  • Hu Zhang and
  • Feng Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 January 2025

Traffic accidents at urban intersections may lead to severe traffic congestion, necessitating effective detection and timely intervention. To achieve real-time traffic accident monitoring at intersections more effectively, this paper proposes an urba...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,536 Views
21 Pages

A Microscopic Traffic Flow Data Generation Method Based on an Improved DCGAN

  • Pengyu Wang,
  • Qiyao Chen,
  • Jianhua Li,
  • Lang Ma and ,
  • Maoquan Feng,
  • Yuanliang Han and
  • Zhiyang Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 June 2023

Microscopic traffic flow data, an important input to virtual test scenarios for autonomous driving, are often difficult to obtain in large quantities to allow for batch testing. In this paper, a neural network for generating microscopic traffic flow...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,185 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2023

A large amount of sensitive information is generated in today’s evolving network environment. Some hackers utilize low-frequency attacks to steal sensitive information from users. This generates minority attack samples in real network traffic....

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,140 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2022

A SDN (Software-Defined Network) separates the control layer from the data layer to realize centralized network control and improve the scalability and the programmability. SDN also faces a series of security threats. An intrusion detection system (I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation for Deep Learning and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
604 Views
34 Pages

9 April 2026

Highway ramp merging requires autonomous vehicles to make safe and efficient decisions in dense mixed traffic, where strong vehicle interactions and rapidly changing acceptable gaps make the task particularly challenging. Existing reinforcement learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,424 Views
12 Pages

Comparison of Statistical and Machine-Learning Models on Road Traffic Accident Severity Classification

  • Paulo Infante,
  • Gonçalo Jacinto,
  • Anabela Afonso,
  • Leonor Rego and ,
  • Vitor Nogueira,
  • Paulo Quaresma,
  • José Saias,
  • Daniel Santos,
  • Pedro Nogueira and
  • Paulo Rebelo Manuel
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

Portugal has the sixth highest road fatality rate among European Union members. This is a problem of different dimensions with serious consequences in people’s lives. This study analyses daily data from police and government authorities on road...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper in Computers)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,203 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Proprietary Internet Video Traffic Dataset Generation Algorithm

  • Tianhua Chen,
  • Elans Grabs,
  • Aleksandrs Ipatovs and
  • Maria-Dolores Cano

7 January 2025

Considering the exponential growth of network traffic, particularly driven by over-the-top (OTT) streaming applications, video category network traffic constitutes a significant portion of overall network traffic. However, most research has focused o...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
26 Pages

29 June 2026

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) for healthcare monitoring require age-of-information (AoI)-aware resource allocation under heterogeneous periodic and aperiodic traffic. Existing AoI-aware resource allocation methods can be broadly divided into ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
27 Pages

ViTWGAN: An Improved WGAN and Vision Transformer-Based Model for Intrusion Detection

  • Xu Lin,
  • Yanhui Liu,
  • Cuihua Wu,
  • Xiaodan Liang and
  • Menghao Fang

This study proposes ViTWGAN, a novel and effective intrusion detection model designed to enhance data privacy protection by detecting malicious traffic within network flows. By improving the discriminator’s loss function, our approach reduces b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,085 Views
13 Pages

3 March 2023

The rationality of heavy vehicle models is crucial to the structural safety assessment of bridges. To establish a realistic heavy vehicle traffic flow model, this study proposes a heavy vehicle random traffic flow simulation method that fully conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Health Monitoring: Advanced Sensing, Diagnostics and Prognostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
35 Pages

Reliable traffic-flow models are important for traffic analysis, simulation and intelligent transport management, yet fundamental traffic-flow relationships are frequently transferred between countries despite differences in road design, traffic comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,294 Views
13 Pages

In the last years of the past century, complex correlation structures were empirically observed, both in aggregated and individual traffic traces, including long-range dependence, large-timescale self-similarity and multi-fractality. The use of stoch...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,424 Views
19 Pages

Differences in Traffic Attraction and Mechanisms of Influencing Factors for Two Types of Large Hospitals in China

  • Baorui Han,
  • Nuo Tan,
  • Shuyan Zhou,
  • Zhenjun Zhu and ,
  • Yin Jia and
  • Ningya Qian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 February 2025

Large hospitals in China typically face high-density patient flows, highly concentrated medical service demands, and significant impacts on surrounding transportation systems. To explore this issue in depth, this study selected a sample of 135 hospit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,098 Views
17 Pages

Traffic Density Exposure, Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Plasma Metabolomics in a Population-Based Sample: The Hortega Study

  • Laura Sanchez-Rodriguez,
  • Marta Galvez-Fernandez,
  • Ayelén Rojas-Benedicto,
  • Arce Domingo-Relloso and ,
  • Nuria Amigo,
  • Josep Redon,
  • Daniel Monleon,
  • Guillermo Saez,
  • Maria Tellez-Plaza and
  • Rebeca Ramis
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

15 December 2023

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) generates oxidative stress, with downstream effects at the metabolic level. Human studies of traffic density and metabolomic markers, however, are rare. The main objective of this study was to evaluate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oxidative Stress Induced by Air Pollution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,072 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, we propose a method for the generation of simulated test scenarios for autonomous driving. Based on the requirements of standard regulatory test scenarios, we can generate virtually simulated scenarios and functional scenario libraries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,696 Views
24 Pages

Network Traffic Data Augmentation Using WGAN Model Guided by LLM

  • Jumanah Hmoud Alyoubi,
  • Miada Almasre,
  • Aishah Aseeri,
  • Alanoud Subahi and
  • Norah Al-Malki

8 December 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand across critical infrastructures, enabling automation, efficiency, and data driven decision making; yet, reliable device identification from network traffic remains hampered by severe class imbalance th...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
446 Views
19 Pages

In network intrusion detection, class imbalance, the scarcity of minority-class attack samples, high feature dimensionality, and substantial feature redundancy are prevalent issues that limit the detection capability of intrusion detection models. To...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,366 Views
24 Pages

Robust Semi-Supervised Traffic Sign Recognition via Self-Training and Weakly-Supervised Learning

  • Obed Tettey Nartey,
  • Guowu Yang,
  • Sarpong Kwadwo Asare,
  • Jinzhao Wu and
  • Lady Nadia Frempong

8 May 2020

Traffic sign recognition is a classification problem that poses challenges for computer vision and machine learning algorithms. Although both computer vision and machine learning techniques have constantly been improved to solve this problem, the sud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Processing of Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,300 Views
13 Pages

23 November 2024

Accurately predicting the long-term trajectories of agents in complex traffic environments is crucial for the safety and effectiveness of autonomous driving systems. This paper introduces DBN-MACTraj, a probabilistic model that takes historical traje...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,275 Views
26 Pages

25 June 2015

High-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) is a protocol for Ethernet networks that provides duplicated frames with zero recovery time in the event of any network component’s failure. It is suited for applications that demand high availability and a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
4,425 Views
21 Pages

Residual Neural Networks for Origin–Destination Trip Matrix Estimation from Traffic Sensor Information

  • Abdullah Alshehri,
  • Mahmoud Owais,
  • Jayadev Gyani,
  • Mishal H. Aljarbou and
  • Saleh Alsulamy

21 June 2023

Traffic management and control applications require comprehensive knowledge of traffic flow data. Typically, such information is gathered using traffic sensors, which have two basic challenges: First, it is impractical or impossible to install sensor...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,234 Views
32 Pages

4 March 2025

This study proposes an enhanced network intrusion detection model, 1D-TCN-ResNet-BiGRU-Multi-Head Attention (TRBMA), aimed at addressing the issues of incomplete learning of temporal features and low accuracy in the classification of malicious traffi...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,971 Views
29 Pages

VAE-WACGAN: An Improved Data Augmentation Method Based on VAEGAN for Intrusion Detection

  • Wuxin Tian,
  • Yanping Shen,
  • Na Guo,
  • Jing Yuan and
  • Yanqing Yang

18 September 2024

To address the class imbalance issue in network intrusion detection, which degrades performance of intrusion detection models, this paper proposes a novel generative model called VAE-WACGAN to generate minority class samples and balance the dataset....

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,465 Views
21 Pages

21 January 2020

On-board vision systems may need to increase the number of classes that can be recognized in a relatively short period. For instance, a traffic sign recognition system may suddenly be required to recognize new signs. Since collecting and annotating s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Driving and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,213 Views
23 Pages

Small object detection in traffic sign applications often faces challenges like complex backgrounds, blurry samples, and multi-scale variations. Existing solutions tend to complicate the algorithms. In this study, we designed an efficient and simple...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,943 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2023

The widespread use of the onion browser (Tor) has provided a breeding ground for the proliferation of cybercriminal activities and the Tor anonymous traffic identification method has been used to fingerprint anonymous web traffic and identify the web...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,764 Views
23 Pages

13 July 2022

Simulation models of transport systems are a key tool for solving many problems in the field of management of these systems. The methodologies for creating such models use datasets on both transport infrastructure and demand for the delivery of goods...

(This article belongs to the Section G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,417 Views
22 Pages

The rising frequency of network intrusions has significantly impacted critical infrastructures, leading to an increased focus on the detection of malicious network traffic in recent years. However, traditional port-based and classical machine learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
543 Views
22 Pages

15 July 2026

Class imbalance remains a major obstacle to reliable network intrusion detection, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor-network monitoring scenarios where rare attack categories are represented by only a small number of high-dimensional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Attack Detection and Intrusion Prevention for the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,142 Views
27 Pages

A Dynamic Website Fingerprinting Defense by Emulating Spatio-Temporal Traffic Features

  • Dongfang Zhang,
  • Chen Rao,
  • Jianan Huang,
  • Lei Guan and ,
  • Manjun Tian and
  • Weiwei Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 November 2025

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks analyze encrypted network traffic to exploit side-channel features such as packet sizes, inter-packet timings, and burst patterns, enabling adversaries to infer users’ browsing activities and posing persisten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
831 Views
29 Pages

10 April 2026

With the explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-computing traffic, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) have become a cornerstone of network security. However, modern traffic data often exhibits extreme class imbalance and long-tail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,452 Views
18 Pages

High-Resolution Spatial Forecasting of Hourly Air Quality: A Fast Method for a Better Representation of Industrial Plumes and Traffic Emissions Contributions

  • Agnieszka Rorat,
  • Lucas Bouché,
  • Mathis Pasquier,
  • Hélène Cessey and ,
  • Nathalie Pujol-Söhne and
  • Benoit Rocq
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 April 2025

Efficiently mapping hourly air quality at a fine scale (25 m) remains a computational challenge. This difficulty is heightened when aiming to accurately capture industrial plumes and time-varying traffic emissions. This paper presents a method for ge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Secondary Atmospheric Pollution Formations and Its Precursors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,531 Views
22 Pages

LAMBERT: Leveraging Attention Mechanisms to Improve the BERT Fine-Tuning Model for Encrypted Traffic Classification

  • Tao Liu,
  • Xiting Ma,
  • Ling Liu,
  • Xin Liu and ,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Ning Hu and
  • Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 May 2024

Encrypted traffic classification is a crucial part of privacy-preserving research. With the great success of artificial intelligence technology in fields such as image recognition and natural language processing, how to classify encrypted traffic bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Information System Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
594 Views
27 Pages

ULSTM: Multi-Scale and Full-Level Temporal Consistency for Traffic Anomaly Detection

  • Borja Pérez,
  • Mario Resino,
  • Jaime Godoy,
  • Abdulla Al-Kaff and
  • Fernando García

Urban traffic anomaly detection is essential for intelligent transportation systems, particularly in smart city environments where fast identification of abnormal events can improve road safety and traffic management. This work proposes a novel ULSTM...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,845 Views
17 Pages

One-Dimensional Convolutional Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network Based Intrusion Detection Method for Industrial Control Systems

  • Zengyu Cai,
  • Hongyu Du,
  • Haoqi Wang,
  • Jianwei Zhang and ,
  • Yajie Si and
  • Pengrong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 November 2023

The imbalance between normal and attack samples in the industrial control systems (ICSs) network environment leads to the low recognition rate of the intrusion detection model for a few abnormal samples when classifying. Since traditional machine lea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Network Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,014 Views
13 Pages

Increasing heavy metal pollution in the environment and the fact that pine needles are good bio-monitors for air pollutants was the reason to investigate their accumulation in pine needles in Vienna (Austria). Pinus nigra is widespread over the city,...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,883 Views
16 Pages

Roadside Exposure and Inflammation Biomarkers among a Cohort of Traffic Police in Kathmandu, Nepal

  • Kabindra M. Shakya,
  • Richard E. Peltier,
  • Yimin Zhang and
  • Basu D. Pandey

Air pollution is a major environmental problem in the Kathmandu Valley. Specifically, roadside and traffic-related air pollution exposure levels were found at very high levels exceeding Nepal air quality standards for daily PM2.5. In an exposure stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IJERPH: 15th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,009 Views
22 Pages

Experimental Assessment of Dust Emissions on Compacted Soils Degraded by Traffic

  • Mickael Le Vern,
  • Ouardia Sediki,
  • Andry Razakamanantsoa,
  • Frédéric Murzyn and
  • Frédérique Larrarte

10 April 2020

Haul traffic on earthworks runways during construction works is an important factor of dust emission. Compacted soils surface become progressively degraded as the number of wheels passing increases. Fine particles are then segregated from the soil su...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)

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