Title
Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Anomaly Detection
Abstract
Malicious attack detection is one of the critical cyber-security challenges in the peer-to-peer smart grid platforms due to the fact that attackers’ behaviours change continuously over time. In this paper, we evaluate twelve Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in terms of their ability to detect anomalous behaviours over the networking practice. The evaluation is performed on three publicly available datasets: CICIDS-2017, UNSW-NB15 and the Industrial Control System (ICS) cyber-attack datasets. The experimental work is performed through the ALICE high-performance computing facility at the University of Leicester. Based on these experiments, a comprehensive analysis of the ML algorithms is presented. The evaluation results verify that the Random Forest (RF) algorithm achieves the best performance in terms of accuracy, precision, Recall, F1-Score and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves on all these datasets. It is worth pointing out that other algorithms perform closely to RF and that the decision regarding which ML algorithm to select depends on the data produced by the application system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CyberSecurity49315.2020.9138871
2020 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Cyber Security,intrusion detection,anomaly detection,machine learning,deep learning,smart grid
Conference
978-1-7281-6428-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nebrase Elmrabit100.34
Feixiang Zhou200.68
Fengyin Li300.34
Huiyu Zhou400.34