Autoperman: Automatic Network Traffic Anomaly Detection with Ensemble Learning

  • Shangbin Han
  • , Qianhong Wu
  • , Han Zhang*
  • , Bo Qin
  • , Jiangyuan Yao
  • , Willy Susilo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Network traffic, which records users’ behaviors, is valuable data resources for diagnosing the health of the network. Mining anomaly in network is essential for network defense. Although traditional machine learning approaches have good performance, their dependence on huge training data set with expensive labels make them impractical. Furthermore, after complex hyperparameters tuning, the detection model may not work. Facing these challenges, in this paper, we propose Autoperman through supervised learning. In Autoperman, machine learning algorithms with fixed hyperparameters as feature extractors are integrated, which utilize a small amount of training data to be initialized. Then Random Forest is selected as the anomaly classifier and achieves automatic parameters tuning via well studied online optimization theory. We compare the performance of Autoperman against traditional anomaly detection algorithms using public traffic datasets. The results demonstrate that Autoperman can perform about 6.9%, 34.2%, 4.3%, 2.2%, 37.6 % better than L-SVM, NL-SVM, LR, MLP, K-means, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence and Security - 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, Proceedings
EditorsXingming Sun, Xiaorui Zhang, Zhihua Xia, Elisa Bertino
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages616-628
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031067600
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security , ICAIS 2022 - Qinghai, China
Duration: 15 Jul 202220 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1587 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security , ICAIS 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQinghai
Period15/07/2220/07/22

Keywords

  • Anomaly detection
  • Autoperman
  • Ensemble learning

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