Junyuan Zhang

Mr. Junyuan Zhang

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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15 November 2025 in Electronics
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JZJunyuan Zhang
Junyuan Zhang
YCYang Chen
Yang Chen
QJQingbing Ji
Qingbing Ji
YWYu Wei
Yu Wei
LNLulin Ni
Lulin Ni
JLJie Luo
Jie Luo
Accurate identification and classification of Darknet traffic is a critical technical challenge for network security supervision. Existing methods predominantly adopt single-modal features and independent classification strategies, making it difficult to effectively handle the hierarchical structural characteristics and complex encryption patterns of Darknet traffic. This paper proposes E2E-MDC (End-to-End Multi-modal Darknet Classification), an end-to-end deep learning framework based on conditional hierarchical mechanism for three-level hierarchical classification of Darknet traffic. The framework integrates four complementary feature extractors—byte-level CNN, packet sequence TCN, bidirectional LSTM, and Transformer—to comprehensively capture traffic patterns from multiple perspectives. A soft conditional hierarchical classification architecture explicitly models dependencies among Level 1 (Darknet type), Level 2 (application category), and Level 3 (specific behavior) by using upper-level prediction probability distributions as conditional input for lower-level classification. On the self-collected Tor dataset containing 8 applications and 8 behavior types, the system achieves 94.90% cascade accuracy, with Level 3 fine-grained classification accuracy reaching 95.02%. On the public Darknet-2020 dataset, cascade accuracy reaches 92.65%, representing improvements of 12% and 15% over existing state-of-the-art methods, respectively, while reducing hierarchical violation rate to below 0.8%. Experimental results demonstrate that the conditional hierarchical mechanism and multi-modal fusion strategy significantly enhance the accuracy and robustness of Darknet traffic classification, providing effective technical support for network security protection.