Intelligent Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things Security: A Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network-Enabled Approach

Abstract

With the rapid advance of Internet of Things (IoT), it is difficult for cloud-centric computing to meet the requirements of low latency and ease of use. As an open and distributed system, edge computing integrates computing, networking, storage, and applications. It provides intelligent services on the edge of an IoT. The edge network is composed of various wireless and wired networks, and the computing and storage resources of edge nodes are limited. These conditions make the edge network expose to a variety of cyber attacks. Additionally, it is difficult for an IoT edge node to support large-scale network data collection and detection for IoT security. Although big data-enabled intrusion detection algorithms can ensure the high accuracy of intrusion detection systems, it is stressful for resource-limited edge nodes to implement those algorithms in IoT. Motivated by these challenges, we propose an intelligent intrusion detection algorithm implemented by big data mining based on a fuzzy rough set, generative adversarial network (GAN), and convolutional neural network (CNN). In our method, we first propose a fuzzy rough set-based algorithm to perform feature selection for big data via IoT. Then, we take advantage of the efficient feature extraction capabilities of CNN for implementing intrusion detection based on selected features. Furthermore, after combining CNN and GAN, we propose an intelligent algorithm to realize intrusion detection in a variety of scenarios. Finally, the proposed method is compared with existing methods for evaluation. Simulation results show that our method has up to 4% higher accuracy than existing methods.