We present a Transformer-based intrusion detection system (IDS) for IoT network flows. Raw traffic is
converted into windowed flow sequences (47 features; 30-s window; 10-s stride; sequence length 64) and
fed to a compact Transformer encoder (4 layers, 8 heads, hidden size 256) with dual heads for binary
(anomaly) and multiclass (attack type) inference. Evaluated on UNSW-NB15, BoT-IoT, and ToN_IoT against
CNN, LSTM, Random Forest, and SVM baselines, the model achieves state-of-the-art discrimination with
lower false-alarm behavior: UNSW-NB15: F1 = 95.1%, FAR = 2.1%, ROC-AUC = 0.984; BoT-IoT: F1 = 97.2%,
FAR = 1.4%, ROC-AUC = 0.992; ToN_IoT: F1 = 92.9%, FAR = 2.6%, ROC-AUC = 0.973. Precision–Recall
analysis confirms higher PR-AUC and better precision at matched recall than all baselines, which aligns
with fewer benign flows escalated as alerts. Attention maps and SHAP attributions surface feature-time
drivers (e.g., SYN bursts, DNS probing, TLS exfiltration cues) and are distilled into short reason codes
attached to each alert. A deployment-oriented alert policy (default threshold with abstain band, 2-of-3
window aggregation, session de-duplication, and rate limiting) turns scores into compact, auditable
outputs suitable for operations.
Multi-Agent Systems and Swarm Intelligence for Autonomous Drone Coordination Article History
Scientific Research Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences
Vol. 5
Issue 2
1-7
2025
Multi-Agent Systems and Swarm Intelligence for Autonomous Drone Coordination Article History
Hayder Salah Abdulameer
Scientific Research Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences