16 papers
How the Graph Construction Technique Shapes Performance in IoT Botnet Detection
Hassan Wasswa, Hussein Abbass, Timothy Lynar
The increasing incidence of IoT-based botnet attacks has driven interest in advanced learning models for detection. Recent efforts have focused on leveraging attention mechanisms t…
Toward Real-World IoT Security: Concept Drift-Resilient IoT Botnet Detection via Latent Space Representation Learning and Alignment
Hassan Wasswa, Timothy Lynar
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 fai…
A Quantized VAE-MLP Botnet Detection Model: A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization-Aware Training and Post-Training Quantization Strategies
Hassan Wasswa, Hussein Abbass, Timothy Lynar
In an effort to counter the increasing IoT botnet-based attacks, state-of-the-art deep learning methods have been proposed and have achieved impressive detection accuracy. However,…
Are GNNs Worth the Effort for IoT Botnet Detection? A Comparative Study of VAE-GNN vs. ViT-MLP and VAE-MLP Approaches
Hassan Wasswa, Hussein Abbass, Timothy Lynar
Due to the exponential rise in IoT-based botnet attacks, researchers have explored various advanced techniques for both dimensionality reduction and attack detection to enhance IoT…
Graph Attention Neural Network for Botnet Detection: Evaluating Autoencoder, VAE and PCA-Based Dimension Reduction
Hassan Wasswa, Hussein Abbass, Timothy Lynar
With the rise of IoT-based botnet attacks, researchers have explored various learning models for detection, including traditional machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approa…
Enhancing IoT-Botnet Detection using Variational Auto-encoder and Cost-Sensitive Learning: A Deep Learning Approach for Imbalanced Datasets
Hassan Wasswa, Timothy Lynar, Hussein Abbass
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has rapidly gained popularity with applications widespread across a variety of industries. However, IoT devices have been recently serving a…