Water filtration by using apple and banana peels as activated carbon

Water filter is an important devices for reducing the contaminants in raw water. Activated from charcoal is used to absorb the contaminants. Fruit peels are some of the suitable alternative carbon to substitute the charcoal. Determining the role of fruit peels which were apple and banana peels powder as activated carbon in water filter is the main goal. Drying and blending the peels till they become powder is the way to allow them to absorb the contaminants. Comparing the results for raw water before and after filtering is the observation. After filtering the raw water, the reading for pH was 6.8 which is in normal pH and turbidity reading recorded was 658 NTU. As for the colour, the water becomes more clear compared to the raw water. This study has found that fruit peels such as banana and apple are an effective substitute to charcoal as natural absorbent

Two Timescale Convergent Q-learning for Sleep--Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we consider an intrusion detection application for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We study the problem of scheduling the sleep times of the individual sensors to maximize the network lifetime while keeping the tracking error to a minimum. We formulate this problem as a partially-observable Markov decision process (POMDP) with continuous state-action spaces, in a manner similar to (Fuemmeler and Veeravalli [2008]). However, unlike their formulation, we consider infinite horizon discounted and average cost objectives as performance criteria. For each criterion, we propose a convergent on-policy Q-learning algorithm that operates on two timescales, while employing function approximation to handle the curse of dimensionality associated with the underlying POMDP. Our proposed algorithm incorporates a policy gradient update using a one-simulation simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) estimate on the faster timescale, while the Q-value parameter (arising from a linear function approximation for the Q-values) is updated in an on-policy temporal difference (TD) algorithm-like fashion on the slower timescale. The feature selection scheme employed in each of our algorithms manages the energy and tracking components in a manner that assists the search for the optimal sleep-scheduling policy. For the sake of comparison, in both discounted and average settings, we also develop a function approximation analogue of the Q-learning algorithm. This algorithm, unlike the two-timescale variant, does not possess theoretical convergence guarantees. Finally, we also adapt our algorithms to include a stochastic iterative estimation scheme for the intruder's mobility model. Our simulation results on a 2-dimensional network setting suggest that our algorithms result in better tracking accuracy at the cost of only a few additional sensors, in comparison to a recent prior work

Improving the Anomaly Detection by Combining PSO Search Methods and J48 Algorithm

The feature selection techniques are used to find the most important and relevant features in a dataset. Therefore, in this study feature selection technique was used to improve the performance of Anomaly Detection. Many feature selection techniques have been developed and implemented on the NSL-KDD dataset. However, with the rapid growth of traffic on a network where more applications, devices, and protocols participate, the traffic data is complex and heterogeneous contribute to security issues. This makes the NSL-KDD dataset no longer reliable for it. The detection model must also be able to recognize the type of novel attack on complex network datasets. So, a robust analysis technique for a more complex and larger dataset is required, to overcome the increase of security issues in a big data network. This study proposes particle swarm optimization (PSO) Search methods as a feature selection method. As contribute to feature analysis knowledge, In the experiment a combination of particle swarm optimization (PSO) Search methods with other search methods are examined. To overcome the limitation NSL-KDD dataset, in the experiments the CICIDS2017 dataset used. To validate the selected features from the proposed technique J48 classification algorithm used in this study. The detection performance of the combination PSO Search method with J48 examined and compare with other feature selection and previous study. The proposed technique successfully finds the important features of the dataset, which improve detection performance with 99.89% accuracy. Compared with the previous study the proposed technique has better accuracy, TPR, and FPR

Intelligent FMI-Reduct Ensemble Frame Work for Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)

The era of computer networks and information systems includes finance, transport, medicine, and education contains a lot of sensitive and confidential data. With the amount of confidential and sensitive data running over network applications are growing vulnerable to a variety of cyber threats. The manual monitoring of network connections and malicious activities is extremely difficult, leading to an increasing concern for malicious attacks on network-related systems. Network intrusion is an increasing issue in the virtual realm of the internet and computer networks that could harm the network structure in various ways, such as by altering system configurations and parameters. To address this issue, the creation of an efficient Network Intrusion Detection System (NID) that identifies malicious activities within a network has become necessary. The NID must regularly monitor network activities to detect malicious connections and help secure computer networks. The utilization of ML and mining of data approaches has proven to be beneficial in these types of scenarios. In this article, mutual a data-driven Fuzzy-Rough feature selection technique has been suggested to rank important features for the NIDS model to enforce cyber security attacks. The primary goal of the research is to classify potential attacks in high dimensional scenario, handling redundant and irrelevant features using proposed dimensionality reduction technique by combining Fuzzy and Rough set Theory techniques. The classical anomaly intrusion detection approaches that use individual classifiers Such as SVM, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbor, and Multi Layer Perceptron are not enough to increase the effectiveness of detecting modern attacks. Hence, the suggested anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection System named "FMI-Reduct based Ensemble Classifier" has been tested on highly imbalanced benchmark datasets, NSL_KDD and UNSW_NB15datasets of intrusion

Revealing the Feature Influence in HTTP Botnet Detection

Botnet are identified as one of most emerging threats due to Cybercriminals work diligently to make most of the part of the users’ network of computers as their target. In conjunction to that, many researchers has conduct a lot of study regarding on the botnets and ways to detect botnet in network traffic. Most of them only used the feature inside the system without mentioning the feature influence in botnet detection. Selecting a significant feature are important in botnet detection as it can increase the accuracy of detection. Besides, existing research focusses more on the technique of recognition rather than uncovering the purpose behind the selection. Therefore, this paper will reveal the influence feature in botnet detection using statistical method. The result obtained showed the accuracy is about 91% which is approximately acceptable to use the influence feature in detecting botnet activity

Barnacles Mating Optimizer with Hopfield Neural Network Based Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things Environment

Owing to the development and expansion of energy-aware sensing devices and autonomous and intelligent systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained remarkable growth and found uses in several day-to-day applications. Currently, the Internet of Things (IoT) network is gradually developing ubiquitous connectivity amongst distinct new applications namely smart homes, smart grids, smart cities, and several others. The developing network of smart devices and objects allows people to make smart decisions with machine to machine (M2M) communications. One of the real-world security and IoT-related challenges was vulnerable to distinct attacks which poses several security and privacy challenges. Thus, an IoT provides effective and efficient solutions. An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a solution for addressing security and privacy challenges with identifying distinct IoT attacks. This study develops a new Barnacles Mating Optimizer with Hopfield Neural Network based Intrusion Detection (BMOHNN-ID) in IoT environment. The presented BMOHNN-ID technique majorly concentrates on the detection and classification of intrusions from IoT environments. In order to attain this, the BMOHNN-ID technique primarily pre-processes the input data for transforming it into a compatible format. Next, the HNN model was employed for the effectual recognition and classification of intrusions from IoT environments. Moreover, the BMO technique was exploited to optimally modify the parameters related to the HNN model. When a list of possible susceptibilities of every device is ordered, every device is profiled utilizing data related to every device. It comprises routing data, the reported hostname, network flow, and topology. This data was offered to the external modules for digesting the data via REST API model. The experimental values assured that the BMOHNN-ID model has gained effectual intrusion classification performance over the other models

A novel approach to data mining using simplified swarm optimization

Data mining has become an increasingly important approach to deal with the rapid growth of data collected and stored in databases. In data mining, data classification and feature selection are considered the two main factors that drive people when making decisions. However, existing traditional data classification and feature selection techniques used in data management are no longer enough for such massive data. This deficiency has prompted the need for a new intelligent data mining technique based on stochastic population-based optimization that could discover useful information from data. In this thesis, a novel Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm is proposed as a rule-based classifier and for feature selection. SSO is a simplified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) that has a self-organising ability to emerge in highly distributed control problem space, and is flexible, robust and cost effective to solve complex computing environments. The proposed SSO classifier has been implemented to classify audio data. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first time that SSO and PSO have been applied for audio classification. Furthermore, two local search strategies, named Exchange Local Search (ELS) and Weighted Local Search (WLS), have been proposed to improve SSO performance. SSO-ELS has been implemented to classify the 13 benchmark datasets obtained from the UCI repository database. Meanwhile, SSO-WLS has been implemented in Anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection System (A-NIDS). In A-NIDS, a novel hybrid SSO-based Rough Set (SSORS) for feature selection has also been proposed. The empirical analysis showed promising results with high classification accuracy rate achieved by all proposed techniques over audio data, UCI data and KDDCup 99 datasets. Therefore, the proposed SSO rule-based classifier with local search strategies has offered a new paradigm shift in solving complex problems in data mining which may not be able to be solved by other benchmark classifiers