数字通信与网络(英文)2024,Vol.10Issue(1) :190-204.DOI:10.1016/j.dcan.2023.03.008

IDS-INT:Intrusion detection system using transformer-based transfer learning for imbalanced network traffic

Farhan Ullah Shamsher Ullah Gautam Srivastava Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
数字通信与网络(英文)2024,Vol.10Issue(1) :190-204.DOI:10.1016/j.dcan.2023.03.008

IDS-INT:Intrusion detection system using transformer-based transfer learning for imbalanced network traffic

Farhan Ullah 1Shamsher Ullah 2Gautam Srivastava 3Jerry Chun-Wei Lin4
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作者信息

  • 1. School of Software,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xian,710072,Shaanxi,China
  • 2. Knowledge Unit of Systems and Technology,University of Management and Technology,Sialkot,51040,Pakistan
  • 3. Department of Math and Computer Science,Brandon University,Brandon,MB R7A 6A9,Canada;Department of Computer Science and Math,Lebanese American University,Beirut,1102,Lebanon;Research Centre for Interneural Computing,China Medical University,Taichung,Taiwan,China
  • 4. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,Bergen,Norway
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Abstract

A network intrusion detection system is critical for cyber security against illegitimate attacks.In terms of feature perspectives,network traffic may include a variety of elements such as attack reference,attack type,a sub-category of attack,host information,malicious scripts,etc.In terms of network perspectives,network traffic may contain an imbalanced number of harmful attacks when compared to normal traffic.It is challenging to identify a specific attack due to complex features and data imbalance issues.To address these issues,this paper proposes an Intrusion Detection System using transformer-based transfer learning for Imbalanced Network Traffic(IDS-INT).IDS-INT uses transformer-based transfer learning to learn feature interactions in both network feature representation and imbalanced data.First,detailed information about each type of attack is gathered from network interaction descriptions,which include network nodes,attack type,reference,host information,etc.Second,the transformer-based transfer learning approach is developed to learn detailed feature representation using their semantic anchors.Third,the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique(SMOTE)is implemented to balance abnormal traffic and detect minority attacks.Fourth,the Convolution Neural Network(CNN)model is designed to extract deep features from the balanced network traffic.Finally,the hybrid approach of the CNN-Long Short-Term Memory(CNN-LSTM)model is developed to detect different types of attacks from the deep features.Detailed experiments are conducted to test the proposed approach using three standard datasets,i.e.,UNSW-NB15,CIC-IDS2017,and NSL-KDD.An explainable AI approach is implemented to interpret the proposed method and develop a trustable model.

Key words

Network intrusion detection/Transfer learning/Features extraction/Imbalance data/Explainable AI/Cybersecurity

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出版年

2024
数字通信与网络(英文)

数字通信与网络(英文)

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