Browsing by Author "Barnard, Pieter"

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    Resource Reservation in Sliced Networks: An Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Approach
    Barnard, Pieter; Macaluso, Irene; Marchetti, Nicola; DaSilva, Luiz A. (IEEE, 2022-05-16)
    The growing complexity of wireless networks has sparked an upsurge in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the telecommunication industry in recent years. In network slicing, a key component of 5G that enables network operators to lease their resources to third-party tenants, AI models may be employed in complex tasks, such as short-term resource reservation (STRR). When AI is used to make complex resource management decisions with financial and service quality implications, it is important that these decisions be understood by a human-in-the-loop. In this paper, we apply state-of-theart techniques from the field of Explainable AI (XAI) to the problem of STRR. Using real-world data to develop an AI model for STRR, we demonstrate how our XAI methodology can be used to explain the real-time decisions of the model, to reveal trends about the model’s general behaviour, as well as aid in the diagnosis of potential faults during the model’s development. In addition, we quantitatively validate the faithfulness of the explanations across an extensive range of XAI metrics to ensure they remain trustworthy and actionable.
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    Robust Network Intrusion Detection Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
    Barnard, Pieter; Marchetti, Nicola; DaSilva, Luiz A. (IEEE, 2022-09)
    In this letter, we present a two-stage pipeline for robust network intrusion detection. First, we implement an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model to perform supervised intrusion detection, and leverage the SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) framework to devise explanations of our model. In the second stage, we use these explanations to train an auto-encoder to distinguish between previously seen and unseen attacks. Experiments conducted on the NSL-KDD dataset show that our solution is able to accurately detect new attacks encountered during testing, while its overall performance is comparable to numerous state-of-the-art works from the cybersecurity literature.