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Main Authors: Pizarro, Einstein Rivas, Zaheer, Wajiha, Yang, Li, El-Khatib, Khalil, Harvel, Glenn
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01592
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author Pizarro, Einstein Rivas
Zaheer, Wajiha
Yang, Li
El-Khatib, Khalil
Harvel, Glenn
author_facet Pizarro, Einstein Rivas
Zaheer, Wajiha
Yang, Li
El-Khatib, Khalil
Harvel, Glenn
contents Radiation Detection Systems (RDSs) play a vital role in ensuring public safety across various settings, from nuclear facilities to medical environments. However, these systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks such as data injection, man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, ICMP floods, botnet attacks, privilege escalation, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Such threats could compromise the integrity and reliability of radiation measurements, posing significant public health and safety risks. This paper presents a new synthetic radiation dataset and an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) tailored for resource-constrained environments, bringing Machine Learning (ML) predictive capabilities closer to the sensing edge layer of critical infrastructure. Leveraging TinyML techniques, the proposed IDS employs an optimized XGBoost model enhanced with pruning, quantization, feature selection, and sampling. These TinyML techniques significantly reduce the size of the model and computational demands, enabling real-time intrusion detection on low-resource devices while maintaining a reasonable balance between efficiency and accuracy.
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spellingShingle Securing Radiation Detection Systems with an Efficient TinyML-Based IDS for Edge Devices
Pizarro, Einstein Rivas
Zaheer, Wajiha
Yang, Li
El-Khatib, Khalil
Harvel, Glenn
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
68T05, 93C65, 90C35
K.6.5; C.2.3; I.2.6
Radiation Detection Systems (RDSs) play a vital role in ensuring public safety across various settings, from nuclear facilities to medical environments. However, these systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks such as data injection, man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, ICMP floods, botnet attacks, privilege escalation, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Such threats could compromise the integrity and reliability of radiation measurements, posing significant public health and safety risks. This paper presents a new synthetic radiation dataset and an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) tailored for resource-constrained environments, bringing Machine Learning (ML) predictive capabilities closer to the sensing edge layer of critical infrastructure. Leveraging TinyML techniques, the proposed IDS employs an optimized XGBoost model enhanced with pruning, quantization, feature selection, and sampling. These TinyML techniques significantly reduce the size of the model and computational demands, enabling real-time intrusion detection on low-resource devices while maintaining a reasonable balance between efficiency and accuracy.
title Securing Radiation Detection Systems with an Efficient TinyML-Based IDS for Edge Devices
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
68T05, 93C65, 90C35
K.6.5; C.2.3; I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01592