A Lightweight Federated Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Botnet Detection in IoT
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| author | Mahmoud, Taha M. Kaabouch, Naima |
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| contents | The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded opportunities for innovation but also increased exposure to botnet-driven cyberattacks. Conventional detection methods often struggle with scalability, privacy, and adaptability in resource-constrained IoT environments. To address these challenges, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving botnet detection framework based on federated learning. This approach enables distributed devices to collaboratively train models without exchanging raw data, thus maintaining user privacy while preserving detection accuracy. A communication-efficient aggregation strategy is introduced to reduce overhead, ensuring suitability for constrained IoT networks. Experiments on benchmark IoT botnet datasets demonstrate that the framework achieves high detection accuracy while substantially reducing communication costs. These findings highlight federated learning as a practical path toward scalable, secure, and privacy-aware intrusion detection for IoT ecosystems. |
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| spellingShingle | A Lightweight Federated Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Botnet Detection in IoT Mahmoud, Taha M. Kaabouch, Naima Machine Learning Cryptography and Security Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded opportunities for innovation but also increased exposure to botnet-driven cyberattacks. Conventional detection methods often struggle with scalability, privacy, and adaptability in resource-constrained IoT environments. To address these challenges, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving botnet detection framework based on federated learning. This approach enables distributed devices to collaboratively train models without exchanging raw data, thus maintaining user privacy while preserving detection accuracy. A communication-efficient aggregation strategy is introduced to reduce overhead, ensuring suitability for constrained IoT networks. Experiments on benchmark IoT botnet datasets demonstrate that the framework achieves high detection accuracy while substantially reducing communication costs. These findings highlight federated learning as a practical path toward scalable, secure, and privacy-aware intrusion detection for IoT ecosystems. |
| title | A Lightweight Federated Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Botnet Detection in IoT |
| topic | Machine Learning Cryptography and Security Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03513 |