Federated Learning for Distributed IIoT Intrusion Detection Using Transfer Approaches

Abstract

Considering that low-cost and resource-constrained sensors coupled inherently could be vulnerable to growing numbers of intrusion threats, industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) systems are faced with severe security concerns. Data sharing for building high-performance intrusion detection models is also prohibited due to the sensitivity, privacy, and high value of IIoT data. This paper presents an anomaly-based intrusion detection system with federated learning for privacy-preserving machine learning in future IIoT networks. To tackle the urgent issue of training local models with non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data, we adopt instance-based transfer learning at local. Furthermore, to boost the performance of this system for IIoT intrusion detection, we propose a rank aggregation algorithm with a weighted voting approach. The proposed system achieves superior detection performance with 95.97% and 73.70% accuracy for AdaBoost and Random Forest respectively, outperforming the baseline models by 12.72% and 14.8%.