HMM-Based Secure Framework for Optical Fog Devices in the Optical Fog/Cloud Network

Abstract

Abstract In the present optical fog/cloud computing environment, optical line terminals and optical network units are used as the most promising optical fog devices (OFDs). The inherent characteristics of fog computing provide certain granted privileges to the attacker to hack devices and make them malicious. Also, existing security solutions generate false alarms that affect the performance of the underlying network. In this paper, a secure framework is proposed that not only predicts the malicious OFDs but also reduces false alarms. Hidden Markov model and intrusion detection system are used to detect the malicious one by computing the probability of shifting (POS) and then shift it to the virtual honeypot which is kept hidden by deploying it at the optical fog layer. In addition, it also reduces the generation of false alarm and logs all malicious activities for further analysis. In the experiment section, Python is used to validate the proposed framework. Further, HMM is simulated and tested in the MATLAB to reduce the false alarm rate. Results show that the proposed framework effectively reduces the false alarms and detects the malicious one and then shifts it onto the virtual honeypot efficiently.