Network Anomaly Detection based on Multi-scale Dynamic Characteristics of Traffic

Jing Yuan, Ruixi Yuan, Xi Chen

Abstract


This paper proposes a novel detection engine, called the Wavelet-Recurrence-Clustering (WRC) detection model, to study the network anomaly detection problem that is widely attractive in Internet security area. The WRC model first
applies the wavelet transform and recurrence analysis to calculate the multi-scale dynamic characteristics of network traffic, and then identifies network anomalies through
the clustering algorithm with those dynamic characteristics. The evaluation results on DARPA 1999 dataset indicate that the WRC detection model can effectively improve the detection accuracy with a low false alarm rate.


Keywords


network anomaly detection, multi-scale dynamic characteristics, recurrence analysis, WRC detection model

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15837/ijccc.2014.1.870

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