Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
2025
  1. V.G. da Silva Ruffo, D.M.B. Lent, L.F. Carvalho, J. Lloret, M.L. Proença Jr. Generative adversarial networks to detect intrusion and anomaly in IP flow-based networks. Future Generation Computer Systems. 2025.
2024
  1. Zacaron, A. M., Lent, D. M. B., da Silva Ruffo, V. G., Carvalho, L. F., & Proença Jr, M. L. . Generative Adversarial Network Models for Anomaly Detection in Software-Defined Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 32(4), 93, 2024.
  2. da Silva Ruffo, V. G., Lent, D. M. B., Komarchesqui, M., Schiavon, V. F., de Assis, M. V. O., Carvalho, L. F., & Proença Jr, M. L. Anomaly and intrusion detection using deep learning for software-defined networks: A survey. Expert Systems with Applications, 124982, 2024.
  3. LENT, DANIEL M. BRANDÃO; DA SILVA RUFFO, VITOR G.; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; LLORET, JAIME; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; Proença, Mario Lemes. An Unsupervised Generative Adversarial Network System to Detect DDoS Attacks in SDN. IEEE Access, v. 12, p. 70690-70706, 2024.
2022
  1. SCARANTI, G. F.; CARVALHO, L. F.; BARBON JUNIOR, Sylvio; LLORET, J.; PROENCA JR, MARIO LEMES. Unsupervised online anomaly detection in Software Defined Network environments. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, v. 191, p. 116225, 2022.
  2. BRANDAO LENT, DANIEL M.; NOVAES, MATHEUS P.; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; LLORET, JAIME; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; PROENCA JR, MARIO LEMES. A Gated Recurrent Unit Deep Learning Model to Detect and Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service and Portscan Attacks. IEEE Access, v. 10, p. 1-1, 2022.
2021
  1. DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO; LLORET, J.; PROENCA JR, MARIO LEMES. A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks. JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, v. 177, p. 102942-13, 2021.
  2. NOVAES, M. P.; CARVALHO, L. F.; LLORET, J.; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. Adversarial Deep Learning approach detection and defense against DDoS attacks in SDN environments. Future Generation Computer Systems, v. 125C, p. 156-167, 2021.
2020
  1. TAVARES, C. H. A.; FILLHO, J. C. M.; Proenca Jr., Mario Lemes; Abrão, Taufik. Machine Learning-based Models for Spectrum Sensing in Cooperative Radio Networks. IET Communications, v. 14, p. 1-15, 2020.
  2. NOVAES, M. P.; CARVALHO, L. F.; LLORET, J.; Proenca Jr., Mario Lemes. Long Short-Term Memory and Fuzzy Logic for Anomaly Detection and Mitigation in Software-Defined Network Environment. IEEE Access, v. 8, p. 83765-83781, 2020.
  3. SCARANTI, G. F.; CARVALHO, L. F.; BARBON JUNIOR, Sylvio; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. Artificial Immune Systems and Fuzzy Logic to Detect Flooding Attacks in Software-Defined Networks. IEEE Access, v. 8, p. 100172-100184, 2020.
  4. DIAS, JOÃO. A. F. F.; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; Soares, Vasco N. G. J.; CALDEIRA, JOÃO M. L. P.; KOROTAEV, V.; Mario L. Proença Jr.. Network Management and Monitoring Solutions for Vehicular Networks: A Survey. ELECTRONICS, v. 9, p. 853, 2020.
  5. DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; LLORET, J.; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. Near Real-time Security System Applied to SDN Environments in IoT Networks using Convolutional Neural Network. COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, 2020.
2019
  1. FERNANDES JUNIOR, G.; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; CARVALHO, L. F.; AL-MUHTADI, J. F.; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. A comprehensive survey on network anomaly detection. TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, v. 70, p. 447-489, 2019.
  2. ZERBINI, C. B.; CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO; Abrao, Taufik; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. Wavelet against random forest for anomaly mitigation in software-defined networking. APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING, v. 80, p. 138-153, 2019.
  3. KOBAYASHI, R. T.; HERNANDES, A. G.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes; Abrão, Taufik. Improved MB Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing Using Wavelet Spectrum Filtering. JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS, v. 28, p. 1950136, 2019.
2018
  1. HAMAMOTO, Anderson H.; CARVALHO, L. F.; SAMPAIO, L. D. H.; Abrão, Taufik; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Network Anomaly Detection System using Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Logic. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS , v. 92, p. 390-402, 2018.
  2. BARBON JUNIOR, Sylvio; CAMPOS, G. F. C.; TAVARES, G. M.; IGAWA, R. A.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes; GUIDO, R. C. Detection of Human, Legitimate Bot, and Malicious Bot in Online Social Networks Based on Wavelets. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications , v. 14, p. 1-17, 2018.
  3. CARVALHO, L. F.; Abrao, Taufik; MENDES, LEONARDO S.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. An Ecosystem for Anomaly Detection and Mitigation in Software-defined Networking. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS , v. 104, p. 121-133, 2018.
  4. Marcos V. O. de Assis; NOVAES, M. P.; ZERBINI, C. B.; CARVALHO, L. F.; Abrao, Taufik; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES. Fast Defense System Against Attacks in Software Defined Networks. IEEE Access , v. 6, p. 69620-69639, 2018.
  5. HERNANDES, AISLAN GABRIEL; PROENÇA JR., MARIO LEMES; Abrão, Taufik. Improved weighted average consensus in distributed cooperative spectrum sensing networks. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies , v. 1, p. e3259-22, 2018.
2017
  1. Amaral, Alexandre de Aguiar; ZARPELÃO, Bruno Bogaz; MENDES, Leonardo de Souza; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Deep IP Flow Inspection to Detect beyond Network Anomalies. Computer Communications , v. 98, p. 80-96, 2017.
  2. DE ASSIS, MARCOS V.O.; HAMAMOTO, Anderson H.; Abrao, Taufik; Proenca, Mario L. A Game Theoretical Based System Using Holt-Winters and Genetic Algorithm with Fuzzy Logic for DoS/DDoS Mitigation on SDN Networks. IEEE Access , v. 5, p. 1-1, 2017.
  3. PENA, Eduardo H. M.; CARVALHO, L. F.; BARBON JUNIOR, Sylvio; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Anomaly Detection Using the Correlational Paraconsistent Machine with Digital Signatures of Network Segment. INFORMATION SCIENCES , v. 420, p. 313-328, 2017.
2016
  1. FERNANDES JUNIOR, G.; CARVALHO, L. F.; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; Mario L. Proença Jr. Network Anomaly Detection using IP Flows with Principal Component Analysis and Ant Colony Optimization. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v. 1, p. 1-26, 2016.
  2. CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO; BARBON JUNIOR, Sylvio; MENDES, Leonardo de Souza; Proenca Jr., Mario Lemes. Unsupervised Learning Clustering and Self-Organized Agents Applied to Help Network Management. Expert Systems with Applications, v. 1, p. 1-30, 2016.
  3. PROENCA, Mario Lemes; FERNANDES, GILBERTO; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C. Digital signature to help network management using flow analysis. International Journal of Network Management (Print), v. 26, p. 76-94, 2016.
2015
  1. Marcos V. O. de Assis; Proenca Jr., Mario Lemes. Scorpius: sFlow Network Anomaly Simulator. Journal of Computer Sciences, v. 11, p. 662-674, 2015.
  2. FERNANDES, GILBERTO; Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C.; Proença, Mario Lemes. Autonomous profile-based anomaly detection system using principal component analysis and flow analysis. Applied Soft Computing (Print) , v. 34, p. 513-525, 2015.
2014
  1. Marcos V. O. de Assis; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. A Seven-Dimensional Flow Analysis to Help Autonomous Network Management. Information Sciences, v. 278, p. 900-913, 2014.
  2. CARVALHO, L.F.; FERNANDES, G.; DE ASSIS, M.V.O.; RODRIGUES, J.J.P.C.; LEMES PROENÇA, M. Digital signature of network segment for healthcare environments support. IRBM News, v. 35, p. 299-309, 2014.
2013
  1. ADANIYA, M. H. A. C.; Abrão, Taufik; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Anomaly Detection Using Metaheuristic Firefly Harmonic Clustering. Journal of Networks, v. 8, p. 82-91, 2013.
2012
  1. Sampaio, Lucas Dias H.; Abrão, Taufik; Angélico, Bruno A.; Fernando Lima, Moisés; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes; Jeszensky, Paul Jean E. Hybrid heuristic-waterfilling game theory approach in MC-CDMA resource allocation. Applied Soft Computing (Print), v. 12, p. 1902-1912, 2012.
  2. Amaral, Alexandre Aguiar; ZARPELÃO, Bruno Bogaz; MENDES, Leonardo de Souza; RODRIGUES, JOEL JOSÉ PUGA COELHO; Proença, Mario Lemes. Inference of network anomaly propagation using spatio-temporal correlation. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v. 35, p. 1781-1792, 2012.
Book Chapters
2015
  1. ADANIYA, MARIO H. A. C.; CARVALHO, L. F.; ZARPELÃO, Bruno B; SAMPAIO, L. D. H.; Abrão, Taufik; Paul Jean Etienne Jeszensky; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Firefly Algorithm in Telecommunications. In: Xin-She Yang; Su Fong Chien; Tiew On Ting. (Org.). Bio-Inspired Computation in Telecommunications, 1st Edition. 1ed.Wyman Street, Waltham, MA:: Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2015, v. 1, p. 43-72.
  2. FERNANDES JUNIOR, G.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Sistema de Detecção de Anomalias Utilizando Análise de Fluxos. 1. ed. Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 2015. v. 1. 116p.
2011
  1. Abrao, Taufik; Dias Sampaio, Lucas Hiera; Proenca Jr., Mario Lemes; Augusto, Bruno; E. Jeszensky, Paul Jean. Multiple Access Network Optimization Aspects via Swarm Search Algorithms. Search Algorithms and Applications. 1ed.rijeka, croatia: InTech, 2011, v. 1, p. 261-298.
2006
  1. Proença, Mario Lemes; COPPELMANS, Camiel; BOTTOLI, Mauricio; de Souza Mendes, L. Baseline to help with network management. In: ICETE 2004 - Springer. (Org.). e-Business and Telecommunication Networks. 1ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006, v. 1, p. 158-166.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
2017
  1. CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; FERNANDES, G.; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; MENDES, Leonardo de Souza; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. A Novel Anomaly Detection System to Assist Network Management in SDN Environment. In: ICC - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2017, Paris. Proceedings of ICC - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2017. p. 1-6.
2015
  1. FERNANDES JUNIOR, G.; PENA, Eduardo H. M.; CARVALHO, L. F.; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; Mario L. Proença Jr. Statistical, Forecasting and Metaheuristic Techniques For Network Anomaly Detection. In: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2015, Salamanca. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2015. p. 1-7.
  2. SALMEN, Fadir; HERNANDES JR., P. R. G.; CARVALHO, L. F.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Using Firefly and Genetic Metaheuristics for Anomaly Detection based on Network Flows. In: The Eleventh Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications - AICT 2015, 2015, Brussels. Proceedings of AICT 2015, 2015. p. 1-6.
  3. HAMAMOTO, Anderson H.; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; proenca, mario lemes. ACO and GA metaheuristics for anomaly detection. In: 2015 34th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2015, Santiago. 2015 34th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC). p. 1-6.
2014
  1. PENA, Eduardo H. M.; BARBON, SYLVIO; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; proenca, mario lemes. Anomaly detection using digital signature of network segment with adaptive ARIMA model and Paraconsistent Logic. In: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), 2014, Funchal. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). p. 1-6.
  2. PENA, Eduardo H. M.; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; BARBON, SYLVIO; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; PROENCA, mario lemes. Correlational paraconsistent machine for anomaly detection. In: GLOBECOM 2014 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2014, Austin. 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference. p. 551-556.
  3. HERNANDES JR., P. R. G.; CARVALHO, L. F.; FERNANDES JUNIOR, G.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Digital Signature of Network Segment Using Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristics. In: SECURWARE 2014: The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2014, Lisbon. SECURWARE 2014 : The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2014. p. 62-67.
  4. HERNANDES JR., P. R. G.; CARVALHO, L. F.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Digital Signature of Network Segment using Flow Analysis through Genetic Algorithm and ACO metaheuristics. In: XXXIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2014), 2014, TALCA. Proceedings of XXXIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2014), 2014. p. 1-4.
  5. COELHO, Roger. W.; Fernandes Jr., G.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. GAIA-MLIS: A Maturity Model for Information Security. In: SECURWARE 2014 : The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2014, Lisbon. SECURWARE 2014 : The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2014. p. 50-55.
2013
  1. FERNANDES, GILBERTO; ZACARON, ALEXANDRO M.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; PROENCA, MARIO LEMES. Digital signature to help network management using principal component analysis and K-means clustering. In: ICC 2013 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2013, Budapest. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). p. 2519-2523.
  2. Silva, Bruno M.; LOPES, IVO M.; MARQUES, MICKAEL B.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; Proenca, Mario L. A mobile health application for outpatients medication management. In: ICC 2013 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2013, Budapest. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). p. 4389-4393.
  3. DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; PROENCA, MARIO LEMES. Holt-Winters statistical forecasting and ACO metaheuristic for traffic characterization. In: ICC 2013 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2013, Budapest. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). p. 2524-2528.
  4. Marcos V. O. de Assis; RODRIGUES, J. J. P. C.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. A novel anomaly detection system based on seven-dimensional flow analysis. In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), 2013, Atlanta. Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2013. Atlanta: IEEE, 2013. p. 735-740.
  5. DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; lemes proenca, mario. A hybrid approach for anomaly detection on large-scale networks using HWDS and entropy. In: 2013 21st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2013), 2013, Split-Primosten. 2013 21st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - (SoftCOM 2013). p. 1-5.
  6. CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; BARBON, SYLVIO; lemes proenca, mario. Using Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic and Dynamic Time Warping for anomaly detection. In: 2013 21st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2013), 2013, Split-Primosten. 2013 21st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - (SoftCOM 2013). p. 1.
  7. CARVALHO, LUIZ F.; DE ASSIS, MARCOS V. O.; GILBERTO, F.; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C.; proenca, mario lemes. Digital Signature of Network Segment using PCA, ACO and Holt-Winters for network management. In: 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on eHealth Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013), 2013, Lisbon. 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013). p. 564.
  8. PENA, Eduardo H. M.; Marcos V. O. de Assis; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Anomaly detection using forecasting methods ARIMA and HWDS. In: XXXII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2013), 2013, Temuco. Proceedings of XXXII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2013), 2013.
  9. Amaral, Alexandre de Aguiar; MENDES, Leonardo de Souza; ZARPELÃO, Bruno Bogaz; PENA, Edeuardo H. M.; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Network anomaly detection by IP flow graph analysis: A DDoS attack case study. In: XXXII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2013), 2013, Temuco. Proceedings of XXXII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'2013), 2013.
  10. CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO; ZACARON, ALEXANDRO MARCELO; ADANIYA, MARIO HENRIQUE AKIHIKO DA COSTA; PROENCA, MARIO LEMESA. Ant Colony Optimization for Creating Digital Signature of Network Segments Using Flow Analysis. In: 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2012, Valparaíso. 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society. p. 171.
2012
  1. ZACARON, A. M.; CARVALHO, L. F.; ADANIYA, M. H. A. C.; Abrão, Taufik; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Digital Signature of Network Segment using Flow Analysis. In: The International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2012) / DCNET 2012, 2012, Rome. DCNET 2012 Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, 2012. rome: scitepress, 2012. p. 35-40.
  2. ZACARON, A. M.; CARVALHO, L. F.; ADANIYA, M. H. A. C.; Abrão, Taufik; PROENÇA JR, Mario Lemes. Assinatura Digital de Segmento de Rede Utilizando Análise de Fluxos e Clusterização K-means. In: SEMISH - 39th Seminar on Hardware and Software, 2012, Curitiba. XXX Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2012. p. 1-12.
  3. ASSIS, MARCOS VINICIUS OLIVEIRA DE; ZACARON, ALEXANDRO MARCELO; PROENCA, MARIO LEMES PROENCA. Time Series Forecasting Methods for Creating Digital Signature of Network Segments Using Flow Analysis. In: 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2012, Valparaíso. 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society. p. 161.
  4. CARVALHO, LUIZ FERNANDO ; ZACARON, ALEXANDRO MARCELO ; ADANIYA, MARIO HENRIQUE AKIHIKO DA COSTA ; proenca, mario lemesa . Ant Colony Optimization for Creating Digital Signature of Network Segments Using Flow Analysis. In: 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2012, Valparaíso. 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society. p. 171.
  5. ADANIYA, MARIO H. A. C. ; LIMA, MOISES F. ; RODRIGUES, JOEL J. P. C. ; Abrao, Taufik ; PROENCA, MARIO LEMES . Anomaly detection using DSNS and Firefly Harmonic Clustering Algorithm. In: ICC 2012 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2012, Ottawa. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). p. 1183-1187.