Due to the growth of smart cities,many real-time systems have been developed to support smart cities using Internet of Things(IoT)and emerging technologies.They are formulated to collect the data for environment monit...Due to the growth of smart cities,many real-time systems have been developed to support smart cities using Internet of Things(IoT)and emerging technologies.They are formulated to collect the data for environment monitoring and automate the communication process.In recent decades,researchers have made many efforts to propose autonomous systems for manipulating network data and providing on-time responses in critical operations.However,the widespread use of IoT devices in resource-constrained applications and mobile sensor networks introduces significant research challenges for cybersecurity.These systems are vulnerable to a variety of cyberattacks,including unauthorized access,denial-of-service attacks,and data leakage,which compromise the network’s security.Additionally,uneven load balancing between mobile IoT devices,which frequently experience link interferences,compromises the trustworthiness of the system.This paper introduces a Multi-Agent secured framework using lightweight edge computing to enhance cybersecurity for sensor networks,aiming to leverage artificial intelligence for adaptive routing and multi-metric trust evaluation to achieve data privacy and mitigate potential threats.Moreover,it enhances the efficiency of distributed sensors for energy consumption through intelligent data analytics techniques,resulting in highly consistent and low-latency network communication.Using simulations,the proposed framework reveals its significant performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches for energy consumption by 43%,latency by 46%,network throughput by 51%,packet loss rate by 40%,and denial of service attacks by 42%.展开更多
The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in critical healthcare infrastructure has introduced significant security and privacy challenges that demand innovative,distributed architectural solutions.Thi...The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in critical healthcare infrastructure has introduced significant security and privacy challenges that demand innovative,distributed architectural solutions.This paper proposes FE-ACS(Fog-Edge Adaptive Cybersecurity System),a novel hierarchical security framework that intelligently distributes AI-powered anomaly detection algorithms across edge,fog,and cloud layers to optimize security efficacy,latency,and privacy.Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that FE-ACS achieves superior detection performance with an AUC-ROC of 0.985 and an F1-score of 0.923,while maintaining significantly lower end-to-end latency(18.7 ms)compared to cloud-centric(152.3 ms)and fog-only(34.5 ms)architectures.The system exhibits exceptional scalability,supporting up to 38,000 devices with logarithmic performance degradation—a 67×improvement over conventional cloud-based approaches.By incorporating differential privacy mechanisms with balanced privacy-utility tradeoffs(ε=1.0–1.5),FE-ACS maintains 90%–93%detection accuracy while ensuring strong privacy guarantees for sensitive healthcare data.Computational efficiency analysis reveals that our architecture achieves a detection rate of 12,400 events per second with only 12.3 mJ energy consumption per inference.In healthcare risk assessment,FE-ACS demonstrates robust operational viability with low patient safety risk(14.7%)and high system reliability(94.0%).The proposed framework represents a significant advancement in distributed security architectures,offering a scalable,privacy-preserving,and real-time solution for protecting healthcare IoT ecosystems against evolving cyber threats.展开更多
基金supported by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University.
文摘Due to the growth of smart cities,many real-time systems have been developed to support smart cities using Internet of Things(IoT)and emerging technologies.They are formulated to collect the data for environment monitoring and automate the communication process.In recent decades,researchers have made many efforts to propose autonomous systems for manipulating network data and providing on-time responses in critical operations.However,the widespread use of IoT devices in resource-constrained applications and mobile sensor networks introduces significant research challenges for cybersecurity.These systems are vulnerable to a variety of cyberattacks,including unauthorized access,denial-of-service attacks,and data leakage,which compromise the network’s security.Additionally,uneven load balancing between mobile IoT devices,which frequently experience link interferences,compromises the trustworthiness of the system.This paper introduces a Multi-Agent secured framework using lightweight edge computing to enhance cybersecurity for sensor networks,aiming to leverage artificial intelligence for adaptive routing and multi-metric trust evaluation to achieve data privacy and mitigate potential threats.Moreover,it enhances the efficiency of distributed sensors for energy consumption through intelligent data analytics techniques,resulting in highly consistent and low-latency network communication.Using simulations,the proposed framework reveals its significant performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches for energy consumption by 43%,latency by 46%,network throughput by 51%,packet loss rate by 40%,and denial of service attacks by 42%.
基金supported by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University under grant No.(DGSSR-2025-02-01276).
文摘The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in critical healthcare infrastructure has introduced significant security and privacy challenges that demand innovative,distributed architectural solutions.This paper proposes FE-ACS(Fog-Edge Adaptive Cybersecurity System),a novel hierarchical security framework that intelligently distributes AI-powered anomaly detection algorithms across edge,fog,and cloud layers to optimize security efficacy,latency,and privacy.Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that FE-ACS achieves superior detection performance with an AUC-ROC of 0.985 and an F1-score of 0.923,while maintaining significantly lower end-to-end latency(18.7 ms)compared to cloud-centric(152.3 ms)and fog-only(34.5 ms)architectures.The system exhibits exceptional scalability,supporting up to 38,000 devices with logarithmic performance degradation—a 67×improvement over conventional cloud-based approaches.By incorporating differential privacy mechanisms with balanced privacy-utility tradeoffs(ε=1.0–1.5),FE-ACS maintains 90%–93%detection accuracy while ensuring strong privacy guarantees for sensitive healthcare data.Computational efficiency analysis reveals that our architecture achieves a detection rate of 12,400 events per second with only 12.3 mJ energy consumption per inference.In healthcare risk assessment,FE-ACS demonstrates robust operational viability with low patient safety risk(14.7%)and high system reliability(94.0%).The proposed framework represents a significant advancement in distributed security architectures,offering a scalable,privacy-preserving,and real-time solution for protecting healthcare IoT ecosystems against evolving cyber threats.
