Intelligent Intrusion Detection System for VANET Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches

Detecting the attacks in Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) system is very important to provide more secure and reliable communication between all vehicles in the system. In this article, an effective Intelligent Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is proposed using machine learning and deep learning approaches such as Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), respectively. The existing methods focus on detecting only the known attacks in VANET environment. This limitation is overcome by proposing the Intelligent IDS system using soft computing techniques. The proposed method consists of Known IDS (KIDS) and Unknown IDS (UIDS) modules, which detect both known attacks and unknown attacks. The KIDS module uses ANFIS classification module to detect the known malicious attacks, whereas the UIDS module uses a deep learning algorithm to detect the unknown attacks in VANET. Modified LeeNET (MLNET) architecture is proposed in this article to identify the type of unknown attacks. In this work, DoS attacks, Botnet attacks, PortScan attacks, and Brute Force attacks are detected using this hybrid learning algorithm. The proposed system obtains 96.9% of Pr, 98.3% of Se, 98.7% of Sp, and 98.6% of Acc and consumed 1.75 s for detecting the DoS attack on i-VANET dataset. The proposed system obtains 98.1% of Pr, 98.9% of Se, 98.1% of Sp, and 98.1% of Acc and consumed 0.95 s for detecting the Botnet attack. The proposed system obtains 98.7% of Pr, 99.1% of Se, 98.9% of Sp, and 99.2% of Acc and consumed 1.38 s for detecting the PortScan attack. The proposed system obtains 99.1of Pr, 97.8% of Se, 98.7% of Sp, and 98.5% of Acc and consumed 1.29 s for detecting the Brute Force attack. The developed methodology is tested on the real-time CIC-IDS 2017 dataset, and the experimental results are compared with other state-of-the-art methods.