A robust intrusion detection system using machine learning techniques for MANET

Abstract

Recent advancement in technologies such as Cloud, Internet of Things etc., leads to the increase usage of mobile computing. Present day mobile computing are too sophisticated and advancement are reaching great heights. Moreover, the present day mobile network suffers due to external and internal intrusions within and outside networks. The existing security systems to protect the mobile networks are incapable to detect the recent attacks. Further, the existing security system completely depends on the traditional signature and rule based approaches. Recent attacks have the property of not fluctuating its behaviour during attack. Hence, a robust Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is desirable. In order to address the above mentioned issue, this paper proposed a robust IDS using Machine Learning Techniques (MLT). The key of using MLT is to utilize the power of ensembles. The ensembles of classifier used in this paper are Random Forest (RF), KNN, Naïve Bayes (NB), etc. The proposed IDS is experimentally tested and validated using a secure test bed. The experimental results also confirms that the proposed IDS is robust enough to withstand and detect any form of intrusions and it is also noted that the proposed IDS outperforms the state of the art IDS with more than 95% accuracy.