A deep reinforcement based echo state network for network intrusion classification

Khorshed Alam; Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan; Dewan Md. Farid

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333038

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A deep reinforcement based echo state network for network intrusion classification

Khorshed Alam ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8040-8598

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Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Dewan Md. Farid

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dewanfarid@seu.edu.bd

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6413-4898

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A deep reinforcement based echo state network for network intrusion classification

Khorshed Alam,
Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan,
Dewan Md. Farid

Published: April 16, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333038

About the Authors

Khorshed Alam

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8040-8598

Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dewan Md. Farid

Contributed equally to this work with: Khorshed Alam, Mahbubul Haq Bhuiyan, Dewan Md. Farid

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dewanfarid@seu.edu.bd

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6413-4898

Competing Interests

he authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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