Securing 6G-enabled IoT/IoV networks by machine learning and data fusion

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2022-11, Vol.2022 (1), p.1-17, Article 113
• Main Authors: Sun, Bin, Geng, Renkang, Zhang, Lu, Li, Shuai, Shen, Tao, Ma, Liyao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 6G mobile communication; 6G network; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Beyond 5G/6G Communications; Communications Engineering; Communications traffic; Data integration; Datasets; Deep learning; Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Internet of Things; Internet of Things (IoT); Internet of Vehicles; Internet of vehicles (IoV); Machine learning; Malware; Networks; Signal,Image and Speech Processing
• ISSN: 1687-1499; 1687-1472; 1687-1499
• DOI: 10.1186/s13638-022-02193-5

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) are rapidly moving to the 6G networks, which leads to dramatically raised security issues. Using machine learning, including deep learning, to find out malicious network traffic is one of practical ways. Though much work has been done in this direction, we found little investigating the effect of using fused network conversation datasets to train and test models. Thus, this work proposes to check conversation dataset characteristics and find suitable ones to fuse into one dataset in order to improve the capability of malicious traffic and malware detection performance. The experiments using real data show that conditioned combination of datasets can be used to enhance algorithm performance and improve detection results. For this reason, it is recommended to profile datasets and conduct conditional fusion of network conversation datasets before using machine learning or deep learning. As the characterization is done using general statistical calculation, it is promising to be used for other domains too.