Improved Network Traffic Generation Technology for Digital Twins Based on Diffusion Model
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1Science and Technology Information Center, Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company,Jinan 250003, China;2Schoole of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;3Power Dispatch Control Center, State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company,Jinan 250001, China

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Science and Technology Project of State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company (No.52062624000K).

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    Generating realistic network traffic for digital twin systems is difficult because traffic packets exhibit temporal dependence, periodic variation, and scenario-driven uncertainty. To address this problem, this paper proposes FlowDiff, a diffusion-based packet generation algorithm, and TDGM, a temporal diffusion generation model. FlowDiff formulates packet generation as a conditioned reverse-diffusion process that progressively denoises latent traffic features. TDGM integrates temporal-aware embedding, periodic features, convolutional neural network (CNN) and Transformer modules, and cross-attention to capture local, global, and long-range traffic patterns. Experiments on real network traffic datasets show that the generated samples are close to real traffic in MSE, KL divergence, FID, and statistical features, demonstrating the effectiveness of the method for digital twin network simulation.

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ZHAO Xiaohong, CHEN Hao, SHI Guanju, GUAN Ti, DING Xuhui, ZHU Chao. Improved Network Traffic Generation Technology for Digital Twins Based on Diffusion Model[J]. Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing,2026,(4):1103-1117.

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  • Received:July 17,2025
  • Revised:September 14,2025
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