Traffic Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Principal Component Analysis and Deep Convolution Neural Network

Abstract

With the popularity of wireless networks, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have advanced rapidly, and their flexibility and ease of deployment have resulted in more security concerns, making it critical to research network intrusion prevention for WSNs. Denial of service (DoS) is a common network attack, achieving its goal by bringing down the target network. A DoS attack on WSNs devices with limited resources would be fatal. This paper proposes a method based on principal component analysis (PCA) and a deep convolution neural network (DCNN) for DoS traffic anomaly detection in WSNs, based on the vulnerability of WSNs to attacks and the limited storage space of their devices. Compared with the conventional deep learning structure, the proposed model has a lightweight structure and more effective feature extraction capability, which can effectively detect network abnormal traffic in WSNs devices with limited storage capacity. To assure the effectiveness of the proposed model, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, various classification metrics, and confusion matrices are used to verify the classification results of the model. Through experimental comparison, the proposed model, with small model size, outperforms other mainstream abnormal traffic detection models in terms of classification effect.