Mansoura University

Faculty of Computers and Information

Computer Science Department

Research Proposal for Master’s Degree

Securing Internet of Things Systems

using Machine Learning

‫أنظمة ان نت اﻷش اء استخدام تعلم اﻵلة‬ ‫تأم‬

Submitted By

Dina Skawky Samir El-helw

Supervisors

Assoc. Prof. Taher Tawfik Hamza

Computer Science Department, Mansoura University,

Egypt

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 Asst. Prof. Mohamed Handosa

Computer Science Department, Mansoura University,

Egypt

Abstract: The Internet of Things is one of the rapidest

technologies in the last period used in several applications.

Things are joined wirelessly or wired to transfer process and

various calculate in actual time. Internet of things application

comes with safety and privacy challenges for the reason that

existing traditional protocols of security are not suitable for

internet of things devices. In this proposal we present a

describe to summary of internet of things technology and

devices and its several scope of application. So, in our research

we aim to apply the three basic of Machine Learning

techniques to solve the security problem of the Internet of

Things technology and devices.

Keywords: Internet of things , Privacy, Security, Machine

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Learning, attack.

Introduction: The Internet of Things is a system of intelligent

things as a network joined with each other wirelessly or wired

in a various environment to transfer information on the

internet , process and various calculate in actual time. Internet

of things applications are google maps, agriculture

devices ,smart city, home, hospital and moving system.

Internet of things devices are growing at a tremendous speed

as the total population of the world exceeds.

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 Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a typical Machine
learning to solve the security problem of the Internet of
Things.

Problem Statement: Internet of things devices are growing

as a tremendous speed exceeds the total population of the

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world, the objective of this research is to solve the security and

privacy problems of the Internet of Things technology and

devices based on machine learning.

Related work: In 2016, J. Canedo et al, proposed in [J. Canedo

and A. Skjellum, 2016] Machine learning technology is used in

internet of things gateway to safe iot applications and devices.

use artificial neural network technique to discover variances on

the internet of things edge. In 2018, L. Xiao, et al, [X. Wan al.,

2018] techniques of machine learning are used to verify the

safety case in the internet of things system. The secrecy case

such as safe verification, information security, and protected

offloading. In 2020, Prajoy Podder, et al .Proposed in [M.

Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal et al., 2020] check the Safety attacks

of Internet of Things. In 2021, Tanujay Saha , et al . Proposed

in [Najwa Aaraj et al., 2021]discover Smart Hacking Lines based

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on Machine Learning technology.

Proposed Methodology: A proposed methodology depends

on using machine learning in the security and privacy problems

of internet of things. to detect hateful actions in internet of

things feat real internet of things traffic flow with the network

level-specific spasms, using an approach to machine learning

recognized a Device Oriented.

Research Timeline Plan: The following table summarized

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the plan to finish the research within 24 months

Task Expected
Duration [24
Months].
⦁ Literature Review. [3 Months]
⦁ Write a Survey on the research topic. [2 Months]
⦁ Collecting and training on the required [2 Months]
software tools and technologies.
⦁ Design a framework of the applied algorithms [2 Months]
within SVM.
⦁ Build an initial Prototype of the designed [3 Months]
framework.
⦁ Evaluate the prototype through experiments [1 Months]
and collect the Results.
⦁ Do any required Enhancements on the [2 Months]
Prototype and re-evaluate it.
⦁ Write A Research Paper. [2 Months]
⦁ Write and submit the Thesis. [3 Months]

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