An intrusion detection algorithm based on joint symmetric uncertainty and hyperparameter optimized fusion neural network.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can ensure the network security by identifying network intrusions according to the abnormal traffic data. However, the intrusion detection data has the problem of high dimensionality and changes with network and attack environments, which leads to the poor performance and poor portability of intrusion detection algorithms. Therefore, this paper proposes an intrusion detection algorithm based on joint symmetric uncertainty and hyperparameter optimized fusion neural network. Firstly, a feature selection method based on symmetric uncertainty and approximate Markov blanket is proposed, which fully considers the correlation and redundancy of features, and also the correlation between combined features and the class label, so as to reduce the data dimensionality. Secondly, the CNN-LSTM classifier fused with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is used to extract the spatial features and temporal features to improve the classification performance. Finally, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is improved and used to automatically optimize the hyperparameters of the classifier, so that the classifier can be applied to different intrusion detection datasets with better generalization ability and portability. Experiments have verified the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm on multiple evaluation indicators. • An effective algorithm for intrusion detection is proposed in this paper. • Feature selection is based on symmetric uncertainty and approximate Markov blanket. • A fusion neural network is constructed to extract the spatial and temporal features. • The PSO algorithm is improved to automatically optimize the hyperparameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]