Title
Multiclass Network Attack Classifier Using CNN Tuned with Genetic Algorithms
Abstract
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are implemented by service providers and network operators to monitor and detect attacks to protect their infrastructures and increase the service availability. Many machine learning algorithms, standalone or combined, have been proposed, including different types of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). This work evaluates a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), created for image classification, as a multiclass network attack classifier that can be deployed in a router. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to find a high-quality solution by rearranging the layout of the input features, reducing the amount of different features if required. The tests have been done using two different public datasets with different ratio of attacks: UNSW (10 classes) and NSL-KDD (4 classes). Both classifiers distinguish correctly normal traffic from attack. However, in order to correctly classify the attack, the latter works better because it can be proportionate between the different classes, obtaining a cross-validated multi-class classifier with K of 0.95.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/PATMOS.2018.8463997
2018 28th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
CNN,Genetic Algorithm,UNSW,NSL-KDD,Classifier,Cybersecurity,IDS
Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Real-time computing,Service provider,Types of artificial neural networks,Artificial intelligence,Router,Classifier (linguistics),Contextual image classification,Intrusion detection system,Genetic algorithm
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-5456
978-1-5386-6366-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Blanco100.34
Pedro MalagóN25813.59
Juan J. Cilla300.34
José Manuel Moya411418.82