ET-BERT

ET-BERT is a method for learning datagram contextual relationships from encrypted traffic, which could be directly applied to different encrypted traffic scenarios and accurately identify classes of traffic. First, ET-BERT employs multi-layer attention in large scale unlabelled traffic to learn both inter-datagram contextual and inter-traffic transport relationships. Second, ET-BERT could be applied to a specific scenario to identify traffic types by fine-tuning the labeled encrypted traffic on a small scale.

Xinjie Lin, Gang Xiong, Gaopeng Gou, Zhen Li, Junzheng Shi and Jing Yu. 2022. ET-BERT: A Contextualized Datagram Representation with Pre-training Transformers for Encrypted Traffic Classification. In Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2022, Lyon, France. Association for Computing Machinery.