Traffic Classification of IoT Devices by Utilizing Spike Neural Network Learning Approach

Abstract

Whenever, the Internet of Things (IoT) applications and devices increased, the capability of the its access frequently stressed. That can lead a significant bottleneck problem for network performance in different layers of an end point to end point (P2P) communication route. So, an appropriate characteristic (i.e., classification) of the time changing traffic prediction has been used to solve this issue. Nevertheless, stills remain at great an open defy. Due to of the most of the presenting solutions depend on machine learning (ML) methods, that though give high calculation cost, where they are not taking into account the fine-accurately flow classification of the IoT devices is needed. Therefore, this paper presents a new model based on the Spike Neural Network (SNN) called IoT-Traffic Classification (IoT-TCSNN) to classify IoT devices traffic. The model consists of four phases: data preprocessing, feature extraction, classier and evaluation. The proposed model performance is evaluated according to evaluation metrics: accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score and energy usage in comparison with two models: ML based Support Vector Machine IoT-TCSVM and ML based Deep Neural Network (IoT-TCDNN). The evaluations result has been shown that IoT-TCSNN consumes less energy in contrast to IoT-TCDNN and IoT-TCSVM. Also, it gives high accuracy in comparison with IoT-TCSVM.