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Abstract

Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) for RPL-based IoT networks often rely solely on routinglayer features, which provide only a partial view of network behaviour. In this work, we investigate whether incorporating Transmit (TX) and Receive (RX) radio features alongside the standard RPL feature set can improve detection performance in an LSTM-based IDS. We evaluate the proposed approach across three different attack types, namely DIS-Flooding, Local Repair, and Worst Parent under varying network sizes. The results show that incorporating TX and RX improves the IDSs overall detection performance by up to 4% in F1-score compared with using routing-layer features alone, with the most notable gain observed for the Worst Parent attack.