A Novel Attack on Complex APUFs Using the Evolutionary Deep Convolutional Neural Network

As the internet of things(IoT)continues to expand rapidly,the significance of its security concerns has grown in recent years.To address these concerns,physical unclonable functions(PUFs)have emerged as valuable tools for enhancing IoT security.PUFs leverage the inherent randomness found in the embedded hardware of IoT devices.However,it has been shown that some PUFs can be modeled by attackers using machine-learning-based approaches.In this paper,a new deep learning(DL)-based modeling attack is introduced to break the resistance of complex XAPUFs.Because training DL models is a problem that falls under the category of NP-hard problems,there has been a significant increase in the use of meta-heuristics(MH)to optimize DL parameters.Nevertheless,it is widely recognized that finding the right balance between exploration and exploitation when dealing with complex problems can pose a significant challenge.To address these chal-lenges,a novel migration-based multi-parent genetic algorithm(MBMPGA)is developed to train the deep convolutional neural network(DCNN)in order to achieve a higher rate of accuracy and convergence speed while decreas-ing the run-time of the attack.In the proposed MBMPGA,a non-linear migration model of the biogeography-based optimization(BBO)is utilized to enhance the exploitation ability of GA.A new multi-parent crossover is then introduced to enhance the exploration ability of GA.The behavior of the proposed MBMPGA is examined on two real-world optimization problems.In benchmark problems,MBMPGA outperforms other MH algorithms in convergence rate.The proposed model are also compared with previous attacking models on several simulated challenge-response pairs(CRPs).The simulation results on the XAPUF datasets show that the introduced attack in this paper obtains more than 99%modeling accuracy even on 8-XAPUF.In addition,the proposed MBMPGA-DCNN outperforms the state-of-the-art modeling attacks in a reduced timeframe and with a smaller number of required sets of CRPs.The area under the curve(AUC)of MBMPGA-DCNN outperforms other architectures.MBMPGA-DCNN achieved sensitivities,specificities,and accuracies of 99.12%,95.14%,and 98.21%,respectively,in the test datasets,establishing it as the most successful method.

A Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Covid-19 Using the Chest X-Ray Images

Real-time detection of Covid-19 has definitely been the most widely-used world-wide classification problem since the start of the pandemic from 2020 until now.In the meantime,airspace opacities spreads related to lung have been of the most challenging problems in this area.A common approach to do on that score has been using chest X-ray images to better diagnose positive Covid-19 cases.Similar to most other classification problems,machine learning-based approaches have been the first/most-used candidates in this application.Many schemes based on machine/deep learning have been proposed in recent years though increasing the performance and accuracy of the system has still remained an open issue.In this paper,we develop a novel deep learning architecture to better classify the Covid-19 X-ray images.To do so,we first propose a novel multi-habitat migration artificial bee colony(MHMABC)algorithm to improve the exploitation/exploration of artificial bee colony(ABC)algorithm.After that,we optimally train the fully connected by using the proposed MHMABC algorithm to obtain better accuracy and convergence rate while reducing the execution cost.Our experiment results on Covid-19 X-ray image dataset show that the proposed deep architecture has a great performance in different important optimization parameters.Furthermore,it will be shown that the MHMABC algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms by evaluating its performance using some wellknown benchmark datasets.