A Network Intrusion Detection System Using Hybrid Multilayer Deep Learning Model.

Journal: Big data
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Abstract

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is designed to detect and analyze network traffic for suspicious activity. Several methods have been introduced in the literature for IDSs; however, due to a large amount of data, these models have failed to achieve high accuracy. A statistical approach is proposed in this research due to the unsatisfactory results of traditional intrusion detection methods. The features are extracted and selected using a multilayer convolutional neural network, and a softmax classifier is employed to classify the network intrusions. To perform further analysis, a multilayer deep neural network is also applied to classify network intrusions. Furthermore, the experiments are performed using two commonly used benchmark intrusion detection datasets: NSL-KDD and KDDCUP'99. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated using four performance metrics: accuracy, recall, F1-score, and precision. The experimental results show that the proposed approach achieved better accuracy (99%) compared with other IDSs.

Authors

  • Muhammad Basit Umair
    Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan.
  • Zeshan Iqbal
    Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
  • Muhammad Ahmad Faraz
    Gaitech Robotics, Shanghai, China.
  • Muhammad Attique Khan
    Department of Computer Science, HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan.
  • Yu-Dong Zhang
    University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.
  • Navid Razmjooy
    Department of Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh, Iran.
  • Sefedine Kadry
    Faculty of Applied Computing and Technology, Noroff University College, Kristiansand, Norway.