We are proud to share that on 18. June 2025, Professor Erol Gelenbe will deliver a talk on: “AI and Queueing Theory Combine Forces for the Detection and Mitigation of Cyberattacks” at the 12th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS2025).
🗓️ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: June 18, 2025, 10:00
📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Centre cnam Paris, France
Abstract: Gateway Servers for the Internet of Things, used in 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 effective traffic shaping, accurate Attack Detection (AD) and Mitigation mechanisms. We will first demonstrate online and federated learning techniques that accurately detect attacks. Measurements of packet floods that convey a cyberattack will be shown to impair the QoS at the Gateways and impede their capability to carry out AD. Using Queueing Theory, we will show that the novel traffic shaping method QDTP will ensure that a Gateway can allow AD to operate promptly during an attack. A new Adaptive Attack Mitigation (AAM) system will be introduced to sample the incoming packet stream, determine whether an attack is ongoing, and dynamically drop batches of packets at the input to reduce the effects of the attack, and minimise the AD overhead and the cost of lost benign packets.
