A novel PCA-firefly based XGBoost classification model for intrusion detection in networks using GPU

Sweta Bhattacharya, S. Siva Ramakrishnan, M. Praveen Kumar Reddy, Rajesh Kaluri, Saurabh Singh, G. Thippa Reddy, Mamoun Alazab, Usman Tariq

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    Abstract

    The enormous popularity of the internet across all spheres of human life has introduced various risks of malicious attacks in the network. The activities performed over the network could be effortlessly proliferated, which has led to the emergence of intrusion detection systems. The patterns of the attacks are also dynamic, which necessitates efficient classification and prediction of cyber attacks. In this paper we propose a hybrid principal component analysis (PCA)-firefly based machine learning model to classify intrusion detection system (IDS) datasets. The dataset used in the study is collected from Kaggle. The model first performs One-Hot encoding for the transformation of the IDS datasets. The hybrid PCA-firefly algorithm is then used for dimensionality reduction. The XGBoost algorithm is implemented on the reduced dataset for classification. A comprehensive evaluation of the model is conducted with the state of the art machine learning approaches to justify the superiority of our proposed approach. The experimental results confirm the fact that the proposed model performs better than the existing machine learning models.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number219
    Pages (from-to)1-17
    Number of pages17
    JournalElectronics
    Volume9
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2020

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