A Deep Intelligent Attack Detection Framework for Fog-Based IoT Systems

Abstract

Fog computing provides a multitude of end-based IoT system services. End IoT devices exchange information with fog nodes and the cloud to handle client undertakings. During the process of data collection between the layer of fog and the cloud, there are more chances of crucial attacks or assaults like DDoS and many more security attacks being compromised by IoT end devices. These network (NW) threats must be spotted early. Deep learning (DL) assumes an unmistakable part in foreseeing the end client behavior by extricating highlights and grouping the foe in the network. Yet, because of IoT devices’ compelled nature in calculation and storage spaces, DL cannot be managed on those. Here, a framework for fog-based attack detection is proffered, and different attacks are prognosticated utilizing long short-term memory (LSTM). The end IoT gadget behaviour can be prognosticated by installing a trained LSTMDL model at the fog node computation module. The simulations are performed using Python by comparing LSTMDL model with deep neural multilayer perceptron (DNMLP), bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM), gated recurrent units (GRU), hybrid ensemble model (HEM), and hybrid deep learning model (CNN + LSTM) comprising convolutional neural network (CNN) and LSTM on DDoS-SDN (Mendeley Dataset), NSLKDD, UNSW-NB15, and IoTID20 datasets. To evaluate the performance of the binary classifier, metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, f1-score, and ROC-AUC curves are considered on these datasets. The LSTMDL model shows outperforming nature in binary classification with 99.70%, 99.12%, 94.11%, and 99.88% performance accuracies on experimentation with respective datasets. The network simulation further shows how different DL models present fog layer communication behaviour detection time (CBDT). DNMLP detects communication behaviour (CB) faster than other models, but LSTMDL predicts assaults better.