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Abstract
As modern networks grow increasingly complex--driven by diverse devices,
encrypted protocols, and evolving threats--network traffic analysis has become
critically important. Existing machine learning models often rely only on a
single representation of packets or flows, limiting their ability to capture
the contextual relationships essential for robust analysis. Furthermore,
task-specific architectures for supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised
learning lead to inefficiencies in adapting to varying data formats and
security tasks. To address these gaps, we propose UniNet, a unified framework
that introduces a novel multi-granular traffic representation (T-Matrix),
integrating session, flow, and packet-level features to provide comprehensive
contextual information. Combined with T-Attent, a lightweight attention-based
model, UniNet efficiently learns latent embeddings for diverse security tasks.
Extensive evaluations across four key network security and privacy
problems--anomaly detection, attack classification, IoT device identification,
and encrypted website fingerprinting--demonstrate UniNet's significant
performance gain over state-of-the-art methods, achieving higher accuracy,
lower false positive rates, and improved scalability. By addressing the
limitations of single-level models and unifying traffic analysis paradigms,
UniNet sets a new benchmark for modern network security.