Title
Addressing Imbalanced Data Problem with Generative Adversarial Network For Intrusion Detection
Abstract
Machine learning techniques help to understand underlying patterns in datasets to develop defense mechanisms against cyber attacks. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) technique is a machine learning technique used in detecting attack vs. benign data. However, it is difficult to construct any effective model when there are imbalances in the dataset that prevent proper classification of attack samples in data. In this research, we use UGR'16 dataset to conduct data wrangling initially. This technique helps to prepare a test set from the original dataset to train the neural network model effectively. We experimented with a series of inputs of varying sizes (i.e. 10000, 50000, 1 million) to observe the performance of the MLP neural network model with distribution of features over accuracy. Later, we use Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) model that produces samples of different attack labels (e.g. blacklist, anomaly spam, ssh scan) for balancing the dataset. These samples are generated based on data from the UGR'16 dataset. Further experiments with MLP neural network model shows that a balanced attack sample dataset, made possible with GAN, produces more accurate results than an imbalanced one.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IRI49571.2020.00012
2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Neural Network (NN),Imbalanced Dataset,Generative Adversarial Network (GAN),Adversarial Samples,Network security.
Conference
978-1-7281-1055-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ibrahim Yilmaz110.36
Rahat Masum210.36
Ambareen Siraj313420.83