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A reliable trust-aware reinforcement learning based routing protocol for wireless medical sensor networks. (2022)
Thesis
HAJAR, M.S. 2022. A reliable trust-aware reinforcement learning based routing protocol for wireless medical sensor networks. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1987863

Interest in the Wireless Medical Sensor Network (WMSN) is rapidly gaining attention thanks to recent advances in semiconductors and wireless communication. However, by virtue of the sensitive medical applications and the stringent resource constraint... Read More about A reliable trust-aware reinforcement learning based routing protocol for wireless medical sensor networks..

Towards a robust, effective and resource-efficient machine learning technique for IoT security monitoring. (2022)
Thesis
ZAKARIYYA, I. 2022. Towards a robust, effective and resource-efficient machine learning technique for IoT security monitoring. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1987917

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly popular and an integral part of our everyday lives, making them a lucrative target for attackers. These devices require suitable security mechanisms that enable robust and effective detection... Read More about Towards a robust, effective and resource-efficient machine learning technique for IoT security monitoring..

Resource efficient federated deep learning for IoT security monitoring. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAKARIYYA, I., KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2022. Resource efficient federated deep learning for IoT security monitoring. In Li, W., Furnell, S. and Meng, W. (eds.) Attacks and defenses for the Internet-of-Things: revised selected papers from the 5th International workshop on Attacks and defenses for Internet-of-Things 2022 (ADIoT 2022), in conjunction with 27th European symposium on research in computer security 2022 (ESORICS 2022) 29-30 Septempber 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 13745. Cham: Springer [online], pages 122-142. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21311-3_6

Federated Learning (FL) uses a distributed Machine Learning (ML) concept to build a global model using multiple local models trained on distributed edge devices. A disadvantage of the FL paradigm is the requirement of many communication rounds before... Read More about Resource efficient federated deep learning for IoT security monitoring..

A robust exploration strategy in reinforcement learning based on temporal difference error. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
HAJAR, M.S., KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2022. A robust exploration strategy in reinforcement learning based on temporal difference error. In Aziz, H., Corrêa, D. and French, T. (eds.) AI 2022: advances in artificial intelligence; proceedings of the 35th Australasian joint conference 2022 (AI 2022), 5-8 December 2022, Perth, Australia. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 13728. Cham: Springer [online], pages 789-799. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22695-3_55

Exploration is a critical component in reinforcement learning algorithms. Exploration exploitation trade-off is still a fundamental dilemma in reinforcement learning. The learning agent needs to learn how to deal with a stochastic environment in orde... Read More about A robust exploration strategy in reinforcement learning based on temporal difference error..

Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models. [Dataset] (2022)
Dataset
SENANAYAKE, J., KALUTARAGE, H., AL-KADRI, M.O., PIRAS, L. and PETROVSKI, A. 2023. Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models [Dataset]. Hosted on GitHub (online). Available from: https://github.com/softwaresec-labs/LVDAndro

Many of the Android apps get published without appropriate security considerations, possibly due to not verifying code or not identifying vulnerabilities at the early stages of development. This can be overcome by using an AI based model trained on a... Read More about Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models. [Dataset].

Keep the moving vehicle secure: context-aware intrusion detection system for in-vehicle CAN bus security. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
RAJAPAKSHA, S., KALUTARAGE, H., AL-KADRI, M.O., MADZUDZO, G. and PETROVSKI, A.V. 2022. Keep the moving vehicle secure: context-aware intrusion detection system for in-vehicle CAN bus security. In Jančárková, T., Visky, G. and Winther, I. (eds.). Proceedings of 14th International conference on Cyber conflict 2022 (CyCon 2022): keep moving, 31 May - 3 June 2022, Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn: CCDCOE, pages 309-330. Hosted on IEEE Xplore [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/CyCon55549.2022.9811048

The growth of information technologies has driven the development of the transportation sector, including connected and autonomous vehicles. Due to its communication capabilities, the controller area network (CAN) is the most widely used in-vehicle c... Read More about Keep the moving vehicle secure: context-aware intrusion detection system for in-vehicle CAN bus security..

Robust, effective and resource efficient deep neural network for intrusion detection in IoT networks. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAKARIYYA, I., KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2022. Robust, effective and resource efficient deep neural network for intrusion detection in IoT networks. In CPPS '22: proceedings of the 8th ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Cyber-physical system security workshop 2022 (CPSS '22), co-located with the 17th ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Asia conference on computer and communications security 2022 (ASIACCS '22) Nagasaki, Japan (virtual event). New York: ACM [online], pages 41-51. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3494107.3522772

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly popular and an integral part of our everyday lives, making them a lucrative target for attackers. These devices require suitable security mechanisms that enable robust and effective detection... Read More about Robust, effective and resource efficient deep neural network for intrusion detection in IoT networks..

Developing secured android applications by mitigating code vulnerabilities with machine learning. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
SENANAYAKE, J., KALUTARAGE, H., AL-KADRI, M.O., PETROVSKI, A. and PIRAS, L. 2022. Developing secured android applications by mitigating code vulnerabilities with machine learning. In ASIA CCS '22: proceedings of the 17th ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Asia conference on computer and communications security 2022 (ASIA CCS 2022), 30 May - 3 June 2022, Nagasaki, Japan. New York: ACM [online], pages 1255-1257. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3488932.3527290

Mobile application developers sometimes might not be serious about source code security and publish apps to the marketplaces. Therefore, it is essential to have a fully automated security solutions generator to integrate security-by-design into the d... Read More about Developing secured android applications by mitigating code vulnerabilities with machine learning..