Multi-agent Intrusion Detection System Using Feature Selection Approach

Author(s):  
Yi Gong ◽  
Yong Fang ◽  
Liang Liu ◽  
Juan Li
Author(s):  
Gaddam Venu Gopal ◽  
Gatram Rama Mohan Babu

Feature selection is a process of identifying relevant feature subset that leads to the machine learning algorithm in a well-defined manner. In this paper, anovel ensemble feature selection approach that comprises of Relief  Attribute Evaluation and hybrid kernel-based support vector machine (HK-SVM) approach is proposed as a feature selection method for network intrusion detection system (NIDS). A Hybrid approach along with the combination of Gaussian and Polynomial methods is used as a kernel for support vector machine (SVM). The key issue is to select a feature subset that yields good accuracy at a minimal computational cost. The proposed approach is implemented and compared with classical SVM and simple kernel. Kyoto2006+, a bench mark intrusion detection dataset,is used for experimental evaluation and then observations are drawn.


There is a tremendous growth in the area of information technology due to which, network defence is also facing major challenges. The conventional Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is not able to prevent the recent attacks and malwares. Hence, IDS which is an essential component of the network needs to be protected. Data mining introduce to the process of separate hidden, previously unknown and useful information from huge databases. Data Mining based Intrusion Detection System is combined with Multi-Agent System to improve the presentation of the IDS. We combine the classifiers which is the widespread approach, to increase the accuracy of a single classifier. For experimentation purpose, we use a benchmark intrusion detection dataset, which is KDDCup’99 and the accuracy of the classifiers were estimated using 10-fold cross validation method. In this work, we use the feature selection methods, namely Flexible mutual information based feature selection (FMIFS) and hybrid feature selection algorithm (HFS) to evaluate the importance of features. This work provides Support Vector Machine (SVM), Nave Bayes (NB) and Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) to classify attack and normal threads as well as to improve the accuracy we ensemble all classifier into single hybrid classifier using Bagging algorithm. The proposed hybrid approach achieves an accuracy rate of 95.11


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