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The popularity of IoT smart things is rising, due to the automation they provide and its effects on productivity. However, it has been proven that IoT devices are vulnerable to both well established and new IoT-specific attack vectors. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa

As IoT deployments grow in scale for applications such as smart cities, they face increasing cyber-security threats. In particular, as evidenced by the famous Mirai incident and other ongoing threats, large-scale IoT device networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Arvin Hekmati , Eugenio Grippo , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The rapid increase in the use of IoT devices brings many benefits to the digital society, ranging from improved efficiency to higher productivity. However, the limited resources and the open nature of these devices make them vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joseph Rose , Matthew Swann , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

This paper describes the principles and implementation results of reinforcement learning algorithms on IoT devices for radio collision mitigation in ISM unlicensed bands. Learning is here used to improve both the IoT network capability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Christophe Moy , Lilian Besson

The growing complexity of cyber threats has rendered static firewalls increasingly ineffective for dynamic, real-time intrusion prevention. This paper proposes a novel AI-driven dynamic firewall optimization framework that leverages deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Taimoor Ahmad

Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Anup Mishra , Čedomir Stefanović , Xiuqiang Xu , Petar Popovski , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

Machine Learning-based techniques have shown success in cyber intelligence. However, they are increasingly becoming targets of sophisticated data-driven adversarial attacks resulting in misprediction, eroding their ability to detect threats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Arman Pashamokhtari , Gustavo Batista , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

IoT devices are known to be vulnerable to various cyber-attacks, such as data exfiltration and the execution of flooding attacks as part of a DDoS attack. When it comes to detecting such attacks using network traffic analysis, it has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yair Meidan , Daniel Benatar , Ron Bitton , Dan Avraham , Asaf Shabtai

As Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as the next logical stage of the Internet, it has become imperative to understand the vulnerabilities of the IoT systems when supporting diverse applications. Because machine learning has been applied…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Zhengping Luo , Shangqing Zhao , Zhuo Lu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jie Xu

Although AI-based models have achieved high accuracy in IoT threat detection, their deployment in enterprise environments is constrained by reliance on stationary datasets that fail to reflect the dynamic nature of real-world IoT NetFlow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hassan Wasswa , Timothy Lynar

Recent research has shown that the integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Moving Target Defense (MTD) can enhance cybersecurity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Nevertheless, the practicality of existing work is hindered by…

Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications can have significant vulnerabilities, which may be exploited by adversaries to cause considerable harm. An important approach for mitigating this threat is remote attestation, which enables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shanto Roy , Salah Uddin Kadir , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

The expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the attack surface of networks, necessitating a robust and adaptive intrusion detection systems. Machine learning based systems have been considered promising in enhancing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Muaan Ur Rehman , Hayretdin Bahsi , Rajesh Kalakoti

Today's IoT systems include event-driven smart applications (apps) that interact with sensors and actuators. A problem specific to IoT systems is that buggy apps, unforeseen bad app interactions, or device/communication failures, can cause…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dang Tu Nguyen , Chengyu Song , Zhiyun Qian , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Edward J. M. Colbert , Patrick McDaniel

Modern advances in sensor, computing, and communication technologies enable various smart grid applications. The heavy dependence on communication technology has highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to false data injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xiangyu Niu Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Sun

The deployment of autonomous AI agents in Internet of Things (IoT) energy systems requires decision-making mechanisms that remain robust, efficient, and trustworthy under real-time constraints and imperfect monitoring. While reinforcement…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xun Shao , Ryuuto Shimizu , Zhi Liu , Kaoru Ota , Mianxiong Dong

This paper proposes a distributed Reinforcement Learning (RL) based framework that can be used for synthesizing MAC layer wireless protocols in IoT networks with low-complexity wireless transceivers. The proposed framework does not rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) addresses the challenge of expensive and high-risk data exploration inherent in RL by pre-training policies on vast amounts of offline data, enabling direct deployment or fine-tuning in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Thanh Nguyen , Tung M. Luu , Tri Ton , Chang D. Yoo

The digital transformation faces tremendous security challenges. In particular, the growing number of cyber-attacks targeting Internet of Things (IoT) systems restates the need for a reliable detection of malicious network activity. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 João Vitorino , Rui Andrade , Isabel Praça , Orlando Sousa , Eva Maia

When large language model (LLM) systems interact with external data to perform complex tasks, a new attack, namely prompt injection, becomes a significant threat. By injecting instructions into the data accessed by the system, the attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sizhe Chen , Yizhu Wang , Nicholas Carlini , Chawin Sitawarin , David Wagner