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Ensemble-Based Spam Detection in Smart Home IoT Devices Time Series Data Using Machine Learning Techniques

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submitted on 2024-07-02, 09:53 and posted on 2024-07-02, 12:23 authored by Ameema Zainab, Shady S. Refaat, Othmane Bouhali

The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing at a fast pace in smart homes, producing large amounts of data, which are mostly transferred over wireless communication channels. However, various IoT devices are vulnerable to different threats, such as cyber-attacks, fluctuating network connections, leakage of information, etc. Statistical analysis and machine learning can play a vital role in detecting the anomalies in the data, which enhances the security level of the smart home IoT system which is the goal of this paper. This paper investigates the trustworthiness of the IoT devices sending house appliances’ readings, with the help of various parameters such as feature importance, root mean square error, hyper-parameter tuning, etc. A spamicity score was awarded to each of the IoT devices by the algorithm, based on the feature importance and the root mean square error score of the machine learning models to determine the trustworthiness of the device in the home network. A dataset publicly available for a smart home, along with weather conditions, is used for the methodology validation. The proposed algorithm is used to detect the spamicity score of the connected IoT devices in the network. The obtained results illustrate the efficacy of the proposed algorithm to analyze the time series data from the IoT devices for spam detection.

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Published in: Information
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11070344

Additional institutions affiliated with: Electrical and Computer Engineering Program - TAMUQ

Funding

Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP10-0101-170082), Smart Grid Dynamic Control and Management with Big Data Process Platform.

IBERDROLA QSTPLLC (N/A).

History

Language

  • English

Publisher

MDPI

Publication Year

  • 2020

License statement

This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • Qatar Computing Research Institute - HBKU
  • Texas A&M University at Qatar