2024/01/25 by Vadim Safronov, Anna Maria Mandalari, Safronov, Vadim +7
Computer Science · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Network Security and Intrusion Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.14332
openalex publication_date 2024/01/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
With an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices present in homes, there is a rise in the number of potential information leakage channels and their associated security threats and privacy risks. Despite a long history of attacks on IoT devices in unprotected home networks, the problem of accurate, rapid detection and prevention of such attacks remains open. Many existing IoT protection solutions are cloud-based, sometimes ineffective, and might share consumer data with unknown third parties. This paper investigates the potential for effective IoT threat detection locally, on a home router, using AI tools combined with classic rule-based traffic-filtering algorithms. Our results show that with a slight rise of router hardware resources caused by machine learning and traffic filtering logic, a typical home router instrumented with our solution is able to effectively detect risks and protect a typical home IoT network, equaling or outperforming existing popular solutions, without any effects on benign IoT functionality, and without relying on cloud services and third parties.