With the development of wireless sensor network technology, the routing strategy has important significance in the Internet of Things. An efficient routing strategy is one of the fundamental technologies to ensure the correct and fast transmission of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we study how to combine deep learning technology with routing technology to propose an efficient routing strategy to cope with network topology changes. First, we use the recurrent neural network combined with the deep deterministic policy gradient method to predict the network traffic distribution. Second, the multi-hop node state is considered as the input of a double deep Q network. Therefore, the nodes can make routing decisions according to the current state of the network. Multi-hop state-aware routing strategy based on traffic flow forecasting (MHSA-TFF) is proposed. Simulation results show that the MHSA-TFF can improve transmission delay, average routing length, and energy efficiency.

In the industrial environment, the data transmission of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) usually has strict deadline requirements. Improving the reliability and real-time performance of data transmission has become one of the critical issues in WSNs research. One of the main methods to improve the network performance of WSNs is to schedule the transmission process. An effective scheduling algorithm can meet the requirements of a strict industrial environment for network performance, which is of great research significance. Aiming at the problem of concurrent data transmission in WSNs, a real-time data transmission scheduling algorithm based on deep Q-learning is proposed. The algorithm comprehensively considers the influence of the remaining deadline, remaining hops, and unassigned time-slot nodes in the data transmission process, defines the reward function and action selection strategy of Q-learning, and guides the system state information transfer process. At the same time, deep learning and Q-learning are combined to solve the problem of disaster maintenance caused by the large scale of the system state. A multi-layer Stacked Auto Encoder (SAE) network model establishes the state-action mapping relationship, and the Q-learning algorithm updates it. Finally, according to the trained SAE network model, the data transmission scheduling strategy of the system in different states is obtained. The network performance of the proposed data transmission scheduling algorithm is analyzed and evaluated by simulation experiments. The simulation results show that compared with the commonly used heuristic algorithms, the proposed algorithm improves real-time performance and can better meet the data transmission requirements of high reliability and real-time WSNs.

Leveraging Data Processing Units (DPUs) deployed at network interfaces, the DPU-accelerated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) enables microsecond-latency initial traffic inspection through hardware offloading. However, while generating high-throughput alerts, this mechanism amplifies the inherent redundancy and noise issues of traditional IDS systems. This paper proposes an alert correlation method using multi-similarity factor aggregation and a suffix tree model. First, alerts are preprocessed using LFDIA, employing multiple similarity factors and dynamic thresholding to cluster correlated alerts and reduce redundancy. Next, an attack intensity time series is generated and smoothed with a Kalman filter to eliminate noise and reveal attack trends. Finally, the suffix tree models attack activities, capturing key behavioral paths of high-severity alerts and identifying attacker patterns. Experimental evaluations on the CPTC-2017 and CPTC-2018 datasets validate the proposed method’s effectiveness in reducing alert redundancy, extracting critical attack behaviors, and constructing attack activity sequences. The results demonstrate that the method not only significantly reduces the number of alerts but also accurately reveals core attack characteristics, enhancing the effectiveness of network security defense strategies.