ByteStack-ID: Integrated Stacked Model Leveraging Payload Byte Frequency for Grayscale Image-based Network Intrusion Detection

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Autores principales: Khan, Irfan, Farrukh, Yasir Ali, Wali, Syed
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author Khan, Irfan
Farrukh, Yasir Ali
Wali, Syed
author_facet Khan, Irfan
Farrukh, Yasir Ali
Wali, Syed
contents In the ever-evolving realm of network security, the swift and accurate identification of diverse attack classes within network traffic is of paramount importance. This paper introduces "ByteStack-ID," a pioneering approach tailored for packet-level intrusion detection. At its core, ByteStack-ID leverages grayscale images generated from the frequency distributions of payload data, a groundbreaking technique that greatly enhances the model's ability to discern intricate data patterns. Notably, our approach is exclusively grounded in packet-level information, a departure from conventional Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) that predominantly rely on flow-based data. While building upon the fundamental concept of stacking methodology, ByteStack-ID diverges from traditional stacking approaches. It seamlessly integrates additional meta learner layers into the concatenated base learners, creating a highly optimized, unified model. Empirical results unequivocally confirm the outstanding effectiveness of the ByteStack-ID framework, consistently outperforming baseline models and state-of-the-art approaches across pivotal performance metrics, including precision, recall, and F1-score. Impressively, our proposed approach achieves an exceptional 81\% macro F1-score in multiclass classification tasks. In a landscape marked by the continuous evolution of network threats, ByteStack-ID emerges as a robust and versatile security solution, relying solely on packet-level information extracted from network traffic data.
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spellingShingle ByteStack-ID: Integrated Stacked Model Leveraging Payload Byte Frequency for Grayscale Image-based Network Intrusion Detection
Khan, Irfan
Farrukh, Yasir Ali
Wali, Syed
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In the ever-evolving realm of network security, the swift and accurate identification of diverse attack classes within network traffic is of paramount importance. This paper introduces "ByteStack-ID," a pioneering approach tailored for packet-level intrusion detection. At its core, ByteStack-ID leverages grayscale images generated from the frequency distributions of payload data, a groundbreaking technique that greatly enhances the model's ability to discern intricate data patterns. Notably, our approach is exclusively grounded in packet-level information, a departure from conventional Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) that predominantly rely on flow-based data. While building upon the fundamental concept of stacking methodology, ByteStack-ID diverges from traditional stacking approaches. It seamlessly integrates additional meta learner layers into the concatenated base learners, creating a highly optimized, unified model. Empirical results unequivocally confirm the outstanding effectiveness of the ByteStack-ID framework, consistently outperforming baseline models and state-of-the-art approaches across pivotal performance metrics, including precision, recall, and F1-score. Impressively, our proposed approach achieves an exceptional 81\% macro F1-score in multiclass classification tasks. In a landscape marked by the continuous evolution of network threats, ByteStack-ID emerges as a robust and versatile security solution, relying solely on packet-level information extracted from network traffic data.
title ByteStack-ID: Integrated Stacked Model Leveraging Payload Byte Frequency for Grayscale Image-based Network Intrusion Detection
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09298