AE-MLP: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for DDoS Detection and Classification

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dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorWei Y
dc.contributor.authorJang-Jaccard J
dc.contributor.authorSabrina F
dc.contributor.authorSingh A
dc.contributor.authorXu W
dc.contributor.authorCamtepe S
dc.contributor.editorOliva D
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T23:48:03Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T01:38:29Z
dc.date.available2021-10-27
dc.date.available2023-11-14T23:48:03Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T01:38:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-27
dc.description.abstractDistributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing as the demand for Internet connectivity massively grows in recent years. Conventional shallow machine learning-based techniques for DDoS attack classification tend to be ineffective when the volume and features of network traffic, potentially carry malicious DDoS payloads, increase exponentially as they cannot extract high importance features automatically. To address this concern, we propose a hybrid approach named AE-MLP that combines two deep learning-based models for effective DDoS attack detection and classification. The Autoencoder (AE) part of our proposed model provides an effective feature extraction that finds the most relevant feature sets automatically without human intervention (e.g., knowledge of cybersecurity professionals). The Multi-layer Perceptron Network (MLP) part of our proposed model uses the compressed and reduced feature sets produced by the AE as inputs and classifies the attacks into different DDoS attack types to overcome the performance overhead and bias associated with processing large feature sets with noise (i.e., unnecessary feature values). Our experimental results, obtained through comprehensive and extensive experiments on different aspects of performance on the CICDDoS2019 dataset, demonstrate both a very high and robust accuracy rate and F1-score that exceed 98% which also outperformed the performance of many similar methods. This shows that our proposed model can be used as an effective DDoS defense tool against the growing number of DDoS attacks.
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dc.format.pagination146810-146821
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dc.identifier.citationWei Y, Jang-Jaccard J, Sabrina F, Singh A, Xu W, Camtepe S. (2021). AE-MLP: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for DDoS Detection and Classification. IEEE Access. 9. (pp. 146810-146821).
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3123791
dc.identifier.eissn2169-3536
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2169-3536
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69191
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherIEEE
dc.publisher.urihttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9591559
dc.relation.isPartOfIEEE Access
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDenial-of-service attack
dc.subjectFeature extraction
dc.subjectComputer crime
dc.subjectRandom forests
dc.subjectDeep learning
dc.subjectNeurons
dc.subjectElectronic mail
dc.subjectDistributed denial of service
dc.subjectDDoS
dc.subjectdeep learning
dc.subjectmulti-class classification
dc.subjectautoencoder
dc.subjectMLP
dc.subjectCICDDoS2019
dc.titleAE-MLP: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for DDoS Detection and Classification
dc.typeJournal article
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