Design and Implementation of an Anomaly Network Traffic Detection Model Integrating Temporal and Spatial Features

Abstract

With the rapid development and widespread application of cloud computing, cloud computing open networks and service sharing scenarios have become more complex and changeable, causing security challenges to become more severe. As an effective means of network protection, anomaly network traffic detection can detect various known attacks. However, there are also some shortcomings. Deep learning brings a new opportunity for the further development of anomaly network traffic detection. So far, the existing deep learning models cannot fully learn the temporal and spatial features of network traffic and their classification accuracy needs to be improved. To fill this gap, this paper proposes an anomaly network traffic detection model integrating temporal and spatial features (ITSN) using a three-layer parallel network structure. ITSN learns the temporal and spatial features of the traffic and fully fuses these two features through feature fusion technology to improve the accuracy of network traffic classification. On this basis, an improved method of raw traffic feature extraction is proposed, which can reduce redundant features, speed up the convergence of the network, and ease the imbalance of the datasets. The experimental results on the ISCX-IDS 2012 and CICIDS 2017 datasets show that the ITSN can improve the accuracy of anomaly network traffic detection while enhancing the robustness of the detection system and has a higher recognition rate for positive samples.