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Volume 16 , Issue 1 , PP: 176-188, 2025 | Cite this article as | XML | Html | PDF | Full Length Article
Esraa Saleh Alomari 1 , Oday Ali Hassen 2 * , Wisam Makki Salim 3 , Selvakumar Manickam 4 , Nur Azman Abu 5
Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JISIoT.160115
Wireless sensor networks have become a vital component of the infrastructure for many modern applications. With the increasing use of wireless sensor networks, the challenges facing these networks in the field of security are escalating and growing, and with the rapid advancement of wireless communication technology, these networks are exposed to increasing, complex and continuous threats. Our research is characterized by innovation in the field of security technology to enhance protection, repel attacks and detect intrusions, among these innovations are intrusion detection systems based on machine learning as a creative and new solution. In this research, we highlight the effectiveness of different machine learning algorithms, such as supervised and unsupervised learning, in detecting anomalies and intrusions within wireless sensor networks, as our goal focuses on enhancing the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by adopting intrusion detection systems (IDS) based on machine learning techniques. In this context, with a focus on using the WSN-DS dataset. The results of this research showed that machine-learning models could improve the security efficiency of wireless sensor networks by achieving accuracy ranging from 91% to 99.7% and testing time ranging from 0.006 to 0.1249, which enhances the ability to effectively retrieve and detect threats in real time.
WSN , IDS , WSN-DS , Random Forest , Decision Tree , Logistic Regression , MLP
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