Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, 522302, India
E-mail: macherlamalleswararao@gmail.com
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Biography
Macherla Malleswara Rao is a Research Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF), Vaddeswaram, Guntur, India. He received his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharath University in 2009 and has over 13 years of academic experience as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and intelligent threat detection systems.
By Macherla Malleswara Rao Pavan Kumar Tummala
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2026.05.06, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026
Context-sensitive smart defense represents a crucial element in protecting distributed cyber-physical systems against advanced and well-coordinated adversarial actions. The current defense architectures face serious issues, such as incompleteness of situational observability and a lack of cross-zone coordination during uncertainty conditions. In order to overcome these constraints, a context-aware smart defense system was proposed that integrates multi-source data and different learning approaches for Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and mitigation. The framework is a collection of data from a variety of sensors, surveillance cameras, radars, and threat databases scattered across numerous Defense Zones. During data transmission from multi-modality devices, there is a possibility of intrusion. For IDS, the network data is pre-processed using Deep Ladder Imputation Networks (DLIN) to fill in gaps and then dispersion-based normalization. Structured sensor and network data are used by the TabNet encoder, and cross-modal attention modules are used to preserve essential network features from different modalities. Graph Neural Networks are used to enable the spatial-temporal analysis to extract the contextual threat information. In the case of emerging or data-sparse zones, Auto Encoder-based Transfer-Learning (AE-TL) methods can be used to produce domain adaptation based on data-rich zones. When attacks are detected, a federated learning-based multi-agent reinforcement learning based on FedQMIX coordinates defense measures without violating data privacy. Bayesian threat inference is used to assess the possibility of future adversarial attacks in non-attack conditions. Empirical assessments indicate that the suggested transfer-learning approach achieves an accuracy of 98.50% and an F-beta of 97.85%. Federated learning combined with reinforcement learning attains an accuracy of 98.1% and 95.6% on attack data and generated data, respectively. Overall, the framework enhances threat detection and coordinated response capabilities, providing a solution to the protection of distributed cyber-physical infrastructures.
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