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LMCA: a lightweight anomaly network traffic detection model integrating adjusted mobilenet and coordinate attention mechanism for IoT

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As widely known, most of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices own small storage and constrained computing power, and hence, their poor security evaluation capabilities make them vulnerable to several types of network attacks. Given this setting, anomaly network traffic detection techniques based on deep learning (DL) offer some practical solutions, and they have brought new opportunities to the security of the IoT. However, existing DL models for anomaly network traffic detection need better flexibility and classification accuracy. Also, the scale of those models needs to be optimized, as a sheer majority of them need to be more suitable for deployment on terminal devices of IoT. Therefore, we propose an anomaly network traffic detection model in this work LMCA, standing for Lightweight Model Integrating adjusted MobileNet and Coordinate Attention mechanism. Combining the adjusted MobileNet model and the coordinate attention mechanism, it constructs a lightweight anomaly network traffic detection model and effectively extracts traffic data's local, global, and spatial–temporal features, which would be easy to deploy on IoT terminals. LMCA has a small scale and good performance, making it suitable for IoT environments. Moreover, we use an original traffic feature extraction method to reduce redundant features and speed up neural network convergence. This work also solves a problem so that the original MobileNet model could perform better on a small dataset, extending the anomaly traffic detection for IoT. To simulate the IoT environment, we used the wired network dataset CICDS2017 and the wireless network dataset AWID. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed work outperforms other existing methods, the accuracy reached 99.96% on the CICIDS2017 dataset and 99.98% on the AWID dataset.

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The article was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, under the Grant Nos. (61672338) and (61672338).

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  1. Department of Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China

    Dezhi Han & HongXu Zhou

  2. Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

    Zhongdai Wu & Bing Han

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung city, Taiwan

    Tien-Hsiung Weng & Kuan-Ching Li

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

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HZ Methodology, Writing Original draft preparation, Software; ZW Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing Original draft preparation, Software, Resources, Supervision; BH Methodology, Data curation, Resources, Validation; HZ Methodology, Data curation, Validation, Writing, Reviewing and Editing; TW and KL: Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Supervision, Writing, Reviewing and Editing; AKP: Writing, Reviewing and Editing.

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Han, D., Zhou, H., Weng, TH. et al. LMCA: a lightweight anomaly network traffic detection model integrating adjusted mobilenet and coordinate attention mechanism for IoT. Telecommun Syst 84, 549–564 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-023-01059-5

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