Securing Radiation Detection Systems with an Efficient TinyML-Based IDS for Edge Devices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01592v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:26:37 GMT
• Title: Securing Radiation Detection Systems with an Efficient TinyML-Based IDS for Edge Devices
• Authors: Einstein Rivas Pizarro, Wajiha Zaheer, Li Yang, Khalil El-Khatib, Glenn Harvel,
• Abstract summary: Radiation Detection Systems (RDSs) play a vital role in ensuring public safety across various settings.<n>These systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks.<n>This paper presents a new synthetic radiation dataset and an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) tailored for resource-constrained environments.
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• Abstract: 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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