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+papers/Topic8 Network Traffic Generation/NetDiffusion Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Generation/NetDiffusion Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Gener_1_33_translate_20260130214700.pdf