2024/09/30 by Barak Gahtan, Gahtan, Barak, Robert J. Sahala +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.03728
openalex publication_date 2024/09/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The increasing adoption of the QUIC transport protocol has transformed encrypted web traffic, necessitating new methodologies for network analysis. However, existing datasets lack the scope, metadata, and decryption capabilities required for robust benchmarking in encrypted traffic research. We introduce VisQUIC, a large-scale dataset of 100,000 labeled QUIC traces from over 44,000 websites, collected over four months. Unlike prior datasets, VisQUIC provides SSL keys for controlled decryption, supports multiple QUIC implementations (Chromium QUIC, Facebooks mvfst, Cloudflares quiche), and introduces a novel image-based representation that enables machine learning-driven encrypted traffic analysis. The dataset includes standardized benchmarking tools, ensuring reproducibility. To demonstrate VisQUICs utility, we present a benchmarking task for estimating HTTP/3 responses in encrypted QUIC traffic, achieving 97% accuracy using only observable packet features. By publicly releasing VisQUIC, we provide an open foundation for advancing encrypted traffic analysis, QUIC security research, and network monitoring.