arXiv AI October 31, 2026 By Nelly Elsayed

Explainability-Aware Evaluation of Transfer Learning Models for IoT DDoS Detection Under Resource Constraints

The paper evaluates seven pre‑trained CNN architectures for detecting IoT DDoS attacks under resource constraints, using the CICDDoS2019 dataset and image‑based traffic representation. It combines performance metrics, reliability statistics, latency and training cost, and interpretability methods (Grad‑CAM and SHAP) to assess each model. DenseNet169 and MobileNetV3 emerge as top performers, offering strong reliability, interpretability, and a favorable latency‑accuracy trade‑off for fog‑level deployment.

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PLAA: Packet-level Adversarial Attacks in Network Traffic Detection

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