Abstract:Critical networking workflows require high-fidelity packet captures (PCAPs) for testing, security analysis, and protocol validation, not just statistical flow-level summaries. Recent packet generators have demonstrated protocol-constrained PCAP synthesis, but they universally decode directly to raw packet fields. That interface entangles learned behavioral choices with deterministic protocol consequences, which forces packet realization to depend on post-hoc heuristic repair. We identify this decode interface as the fundamental bottleneck and present TraceCodec, a state-aware neural codec for stateful multi-flow traces. TraceCodec lifts each packet into a timed packet action with explicit flow slots and transport cues, then learns a continuous per-packet latent. A deterministic compiler lowers decoded actions back to PCAPs, owning endpoint assignment, TCP state, legality constraints, and packet rendering. The latent layer exposes a generator-facing sequence space, so downstream traffic models can operate on packet-action latents rather than raw header fields. On CICIDS2017 Monday, TraceCodec matches packet count, protocol composition, and flow population to within 0.03%. Raw-field baselines under the same non-repair policy distort flow counts and TCP state by orders of magnitude. Structural diagnostics show that TraceCodec preserves TCP state transitions and multi-flow interleaving that raw-field decoders fragment. This work establishes a new foundation for high-fidelity packet-trace generation.
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