Network Intrusion Detection System Based on the Combination of Multiobjective Particle Swarm Algorithm‐Based Feature Selection and Fast‐Learning Network

Abstract

Given the growth of wireless networks and the increase of the advantages and applications of communication networks, especially mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), this type of network has attracted the attention of users and researchers more than before. The benefit of these types of networks in various kinds of networks and environments is that MANET does not require to hardware infrastructure to communicate and send and receive data packets within the network. It is one of the main reasons for using these MANET in various fields. On the other hand, the increased popularity of these networks has led to many challenges, one of the most important of which is network security. In this regard, a lack of regulatory and security infrastructure in MANETs has caused some problems in sending and receiving data, where intrusion in the network has been recognized as one of the most important issues. In MANETs, wireless notes act as a link between the source and destination nodes and play the role of relays and routers in the network. Therefore, malicious node penetration and the destruction of information packages become feasible. Today, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are used as a solution to deal with the problem through remote monitoring of the performance and behaviors of nodes existing in wireless sensor networks. In addition to detecting malicious nodes in the network, IDSs can predict the behavior of malicious nodes in the future in most cases. Therefore, the present study introduced a network IDS (NIDS) entitled MOPSO‐FLN by using a combination of multiobjective particle swarm optimization algorithm‐ (MOPSO‐) based feature subset selection (FSS) and fast‐learning network (FLN). In this work, we used the KDD Cup99 and dataset to select features, train the network, and test the model. According to the simulation results, this method was able to improve the performance of the IDS in terms of evaluation criteria, compared to other previous methods, by creating a balance between the objectives of the number of representative features and training errors based on the evolutionary power of MOPSO.