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Main Authors: Chehade, Adel, Ragusa, Edoardo, Gastaldo, Paolo, Zunino, Rodolfo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04008
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author Chehade, Adel
Ragusa, Edoardo
Gastaldo, Paolo
Zunino, Rodolfo
author_facet Chehade, Adel
Ragusa, Edoardo
Gastaldo, Paolo
Zunino, Rodolfo
contents This paper presents a system for session-level traffic classification on endpoint devices, developed using a Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) framework. HW-NAS optimizes Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures by integrating hardware constraints, ensuring efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. Tested on the ISCX VPN-nonVPN dataset, the method achieves 97.06% accuracy while reducing parameters by over 200 times and FLOPs by nearly 4 times compared to leading models. The proposed model requires up to 15.5 times less RAM and 26.4 times fewer FLOPs than the most hardware-demanding models. This system enhances compatibility across network architectures and ensures efficient deployment on diverse hardware, making it suitable for applications like firewall policy enforcement and traffic monitoring.
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spellingShingle Tiny Neural Networks for Session-Level Traffic Classification
Chehade, Adel
Ragusa, Edoardo
Gastaldo, Paolo
Zunino, Rodolfo
Networking and Internet Architecture
This paper presents a system for session-level traffic classification on endpoint devices, developed using a Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) framework. HW-NAS optimizes Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures by integrating hardware constraints, ensuring efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. Tested on the ISCX VPN-nonVPN dataset, the method achieves 97.06% accuracy while reducing parameters by over 200 times and FLOPs by nearly 4 times compared to leading models. The proposed model requires up to 15.5 times less RAM and 26.4 times fewer FLOPs than the most hardware-demanding models. This system enhances compatibility across network architectures and ensures efficient deployment on diverse hardware, making it suitable for applications like firewall policy enforcement and traffic monitoring.
title Tiny Neural Networks for Session-Level Traffic Classification
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04008