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DFE: efficient IoT network intrusion detection using deep feature extraction

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In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has received a lot of attention. It has been used in many applications such as the control industry, industrial plants, and medicine. In this regard, a fundamental necessity is to implement security in IoT. To this end, Network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) have been recently in the detection of network attacks and threats. Currently, these systems use a variety of deep learning (DL) models such as the convolutional neural networks to improve the detection of attacks. However, almost all current DL-based NIDSs are made up of many layers, and therefore, they need a lot of processing resources because of their high number of parameters. On the other hand, due to the lack of processing resources, such inefficient DL models are unusable in IoT devices. This paper presents a very accurate NIDS that is named DFE, and it uses a very lightweight and efficient neural network based on the idea of deep feature extraction. In this model, the input vector of the network is permuted in a 3D space, and its individual values are brought close together. This allows the model to extract highly discriminative features using a small number of layers without the need to use large 2D or 3D convolution filters. As a result, the network can achieve an accurate classification using a significantly small number of required calculations. This makes the DFE ideal for real-time intrusion detection by IoT devices with limited processing capabilities. The efficacy of the DFE has been evaluated using three popular public datasets named UNSW-NB15, CICIDS2017, and KDDCup99, and the results show the superiority of the proposed model over the state-of-the-art algorithms

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Basati, A., Faghih, M.M. DFE: efficient IoT network intrusion detection using deep feature extraction. Neural Comput & Applic 34, 15175–15195 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06826-6

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