Gateway Servers for the Internet of Things, including critical application areas such as the Internet of Vehicles and health monitoring, must meet stringent Security and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, offering cyberattack protection with fast response and minimal loss of benign data. Therefore, it is vital to protect these systems with adequate Attack Detection (AD) and Mitigation mechanisms.
We will first demonstrate online as well as federated learning techniques that accurately detect attacks. Measurements of packet floods that convey a cyberattack will also be shown to impair the QoS at the Gateways and impede their capability to carry out AD. Novel traffic shaping methods to ensure that a Gateway can allow AD to operate promptly during an attack will be discussed. A new Adaptive Attack Mitigation (AAM) system will be introduced to sample the incoming packet stream, determine whether the attack is ongoing, dynamically drop batches of packets at the input to reduce the effects of the attack and minimize the AD overhead and the cost of lost benign packets.
Speaker’s Bio: Erol Gelenbe MAE’05 FIEEE’86 FACM’02 FIFIP’19 FRSA’24 FRSS’20 FIET’03 graduated from METU (Ankara), received his PhD from the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University and the State Doctorate in Mathematical Sciences from the Sorbonne (Paris). An expert on System Performance Evaluation as well as Machine Learning, he invented the Random Neural Network and the eponymous G-Networks, developed methods such as diffusion approximations, and derived some of the first analytical results regarding the performance of communication protocols. Currently a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, he graduated over 90 PhDs during his professorships in Belgium, France, the USA, the UK and Poland. For his services to research and higher education, he received the honours of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Commander of Merit of France and Italy, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, and Officer of the Order of Merit of Poland, and was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France, of the Science Academies of Belgium, Poland and Turkey, Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (Amman). He chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea and won the ACM SIGMETRICS’08 Life-Time Award for his work on system performance modelling and analysis, the Mustafa Award’17 for his invention of G-Networks, the Grand Prix France-Télécom’96 (French Academy of Sciences) for his research on stochastic networks, the IET Innovation Award (Oliver Lodge Medal’10) and other prizes.