NFDLM: A Lightweight Network Flow based Deep Learning Model for DDoS Attack Detection in IoT Domains
This addresses DDoS attacks on IoT devices, which are a major concern for Internet users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ANN and LSTM methods.
The study tackled DDoS attack detection in IoT domains by proposing NFDLM, a lightweight ANN-based framework with mutual correlation for feature selection, achieving approximately 99% accuracy in detecting botnet attacks.
In the recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become one of the prime concerns to Internet users around the world. One of the sources of the attacks on IoT ecosystems are botnets. Intruders force IoT devices to become unavailable for its legitimate users by sending large number of messages within a short interval. This study proposes NFDLM, a lightweight and optimised Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack detection framework with mutual correlation as feature selection method which produces a superior result when compared with Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and simple ANN. Overall, the detection performance achieves approximately 99\% accuracy for the detection of attacks from botnets. In this work, we have designed and compared four different models where two are based on ANN and the other two are based on LSTM to detect the attack types of DDoS.