To secure cloud computing and outsourced data while meeting the requirements
of automation, many intrusion detection schemes based on deep learn ing are
proposed. Though the detection rate of many network intrusion detection
solutions can be quite high nowadays, their identification accuracy on
imbalanced abnormal network traffic still remains low. Therefore, this paper
proposes a ResNet &Inception-based convolutional neural network (RICNN)
model to abnormal traffic classification. RICNN can learn more traffic
features through the Inception unit, and the degradation problem of the
network is eliminated through the direct map ping unit of ResNet, thus the
improvement of the model?s generalization ability can be achievable. In
addition, to simplify the network, an improved version of RICNN, which makes
it possible to reduce the number of parameters that need to be learnt
without degrading identification accuracy, is also proposed in this paper.
The experimental results on the dataset CICIDS2017 show that RICNN not only
achieves an overall accuracy of 99.386% but also has a high detection rate
across different categories, especially for small samples. The comparison
experiments show that the recognition rate of RICNN outperforms a variety of
CNN models and RNN models, and the best detection accuracy can be achieved.