IoS Anomaly Detection Using Sensory Payload and Packet Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing solutions are inadequate for detecting cyberbullying through abusive senses in Internet of Senses (IoS) applications, which involve tactile, olfactory, or thermal interactions, as they are limited to text-based or image-based analytics.

Innovation Solution

A method involving payload-based and packet-based analyses is applied to sensory, network, and context data to detect anomalies in IoS applications, using machine learning models and rules-based algorithms to identify abusive interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If text-based or image-based analytics are used for cyberbullying detection, then detection capability for traditional cyberbullying is achieved, but detection capability for sense-based cyberbullying in IoS applications is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection capabilityVSAvoiddetection reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The detection system is designed to handle multiple types of data (sensory data, network data, context data) through a unified anomaly detection framework. The network node performs payload-based analysis on sensory and context data while simultaneously performing packet-based analysis on network data, making the system versatile across different data types while maintaining reliable detection through consistent anomaly identification mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extends cyberbullying detection from traditional text/image dimensions to include sensory dimensions (tactile, olfactory, thermal). By analyzing sensory data packets in addition to traditional content, the system adds a new dimension to detection capability, enabling it to detect abusive interactions in IoS applications that involve sense-based communication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If payload-based analysis is applied to sensory data, then detection accuracy for abusive interactions is improved, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The analysis process is segmented into two distinct approaches: payload-based analysis applied to sensory data and context data, and packet-based analysis applied to network data. This segmentation allows the system to tackle complex detection tasks through divided, specialized analysis paths, improving detection accuracy while managing computational complexity through structured division of labor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The network node serves as an intermediary that receives sensory data from the sender node and performs comprehensive analysis before transmitting results to the receiver node. This intermediary role centralizes the computationally intensive payload-based and packet-based analyses, enabling detailed detection accuracy while isolating computational complexity to a specific system component rather than distributing it across all nodes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If packet-based analysis is applied to network data, then detection of traffic patterns is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraffic pattern detectionVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically applies packet-based analysis to network data to detect traffic patterns associated with cyberbullying. By making the analysis adaptive to the data type (packet-based for network data, payload-based for sensory data), the system optimizes processing efficiency while maintaining precise traffic pattern detection capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention merges payload-based analysis and packet-based analysis into a unified anomaly detection framework at the network node. Both analysis methods operate simultaneously on different data types and their results are combined to form the final anomaly determination, enabling comprehensive traffic pattern detection while balancing processing time through parallel execution of complementary analysis techniques.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20260067309A1Methods and apparatuses for detecting security attacks in internet of senses (IOS) applications
Publication Date: 2026.03.05 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
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AI summary

A technique for detecting security attacks in Internet of Senses (IoS) applications is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by a network node (300) and comprises obtaining (S201B), from a sender node (200), sensory data (101) and at least one of network data (102) or context data (103). The method further comprises determining (S301) anomaly by applying at least one of a payload-based analysis or a packet-based analysis. The payload-based analysis is applied to at least one of the sensory data (101) or to the context data (103). The packet-based analysis is applied to the network data (102). The payload-based analysis analyzes a payload of data packets, while the packet-based analysis analyzes a pattern of data packet traffic. The method further comprises transmitting (S302), to a receiver node (400), a result of the determining step (S301).