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arXiv AI By Ijaz Ahmad, Ijaz Ahmad, Flavio Esposito, Erkki Harjula

Autonomy in Check: Governor-Mediated Adaptive Security at the Edge

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The paper proposes a split‑control architecture for adaptive security at the network edge, where an untrusted planner emits typed security intents that are vetted by a deterministic governor before being enacted. The governor checks each intent against safety, resource, temporal‑stability, and proportionality invariants, issuing signed receipts for admitted actions that are compiled into eBPF map updates. Experiments on a Raspberry Pi 5 connected to a university 5G test network show the governor can admit, reject, and bound intents at microsecond cost without disrupting protected‑flow regularity.

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