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|June 12, 2026
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Classifying encrypted sensor traffic in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is improved by the CDTF framework. This contrastive dual-task framework enhances transferable and few-shot traffic representation learning, reducing the need for extensive labeled data.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Network Security
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Encrypted sensor traffic classification is vital for Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) security.
  • Current methods struggle with new traffic types and distinguishing intrinsic behaviors from shared library patterns, especially under distribution shifts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose CDTF, a contrastive dual-task framework for transferable and few-shot traffic representation learning.
  • To improve the accuracy and adaptability of encrypted traffic classification in MEC environments.

Main Methods:

  • CDTF employs a hybrid pre-training strategy combining supervised triplet pretraining (STP) and self-supervised dynamic burst masking (DBM).
  • STP uses base-class labels to align intra-class and separate inter-class samples, mitigating interference from shared network components.
Keywords:
IoTcontrastive learningencrypted traffic classificationfew-shot learning

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  • DBM models global semantic structures and enhances representation robustness against network noise and distribution shifts.

    • Main Results:

    • CDTF learns discriminative and contextual representations in a shared embedding space.
    • The framework enables rapid adaptation to novel categories via lightweight fine-tuning, reducing reliance on large labeled datasets.
    • Experiments across nine datasets demonstrated superior performance over state-of-the-art methods, with a 4.61 percentage point Precision improvement in the few-shot setting.

    Conclusions:

    • CDTF offers a robust and adaptable solution for encrypted sensor traffic classification in MEC.
    • The proposed framework significantly enhances few-shot learning capabilities and reduces data supervision requirements.
    • CDTF demonstrates strong transferability and robustness, outperforming existing methods in diverse environments.