Tongxin xuebao (Oct 2022)

Network traffic anomaly detection method based on multi-scale characteristic

  • Xueyuan DUAN,
  • Yu FU,
  • Kun WANG,
  • Taotao LIU,
  • Bin LI

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43
pp. 65 – 76

Abstract

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Aiming at the problem that most of the traditional network traffic anomaly detection methods only pay attention to the fine-grained features of traffic data, and make insufficient use of multi-scale feature information, which may lead to low accuracy of anomaly detection results, a network traffic anomaly detection method based on multi-scale features was proposed.The original traffic was divided into sub-sequences with multiple observation spans by using multiple sliding windows of different scales, and the multi-level sequences of each sub-sequence were reconstructed by wavelet transform technology.Multi-level reconstructed sequences were generated by Chain SAE through feature space mapping, and a preliminary judgment of abnormality was made by the classifiers of each level according to the errors of the reconstructed sequences.The weighted voting strategy was adopted to summarize the preliminary judgment results of each level to form the final result judgment.Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively mine the multi-scale feature information of network traffic, and the detection performance of abnormal traffic is obviously improved compared with traditional methods.

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