Quantum walks-based classification model with resistance for cloud computing attacks

Abstract

Cloud computing is considerably investigable and adoptable in both industry and academia, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been applied in cloud computing. Although SDN mitigates some security issues in cloud computing, new security issues related to its own architecture are also introduced. In this paper, we propose a quantum walks-based classification model which is available for intrusion detection in cloud computing. The proposed model concentrates feature information of data via Principal Component Analysis, and then aggregates the concentrated data in the way of quantum walks by a training-free clustering algorithm. The clustering algorithm constructs coin transformation and conditional shift transformation based on transition probabilities to move similar data toward each other. To enhance the usability of the proposed model in cloud computing security, we propose a new cloud architecture which adds security layer in SDN to ponder the protection of cloud computing fundamentally, and simplify transition probabilities equations of clustering algorithm without affecting clustering accuracy, decreasing the time complexity from O(nk2) to O(nk). The experimental results on popular datasets (Accuracy: 99.4% on InSDN, 95.8% on NSL-KDD, 98% on UNSW-NB15 and 96.4% on CSE-CIC-IDS2018) revealed that the proposed model is effective dealing with attacks on SDN-based cloud computing, and is able to maintain stable and excellent attack identification ability under different traffic intensities.