Decision Tree with Pearson Correlation-based Recursive Feature Elimination Model for Attack Detection in IoT Environment

Abstract

The industrial revolution in recent years made massive uses of Internet of Things (IoT) applications like smart cities’ growth. This leads to automation in real-time applications to make human life easier. These IoT-enabled applications, technologies, and communications enhance the quality of life, quality of service, people’s well-being, and operational efficiency. The efficiency of these smart devices may harm the end-users, misuse their sensitive information increase cyber-attacks and threats. This smart city expansion is difficult due to cyber attacks. Consequently, it is needed to develop an efficient system model that can protect IoT devices from attacks and threats. To enhance product safety and security, the IoT-enabled applications should be monitored in real-time. This paper proposed an efficient feature selection with a feature fusion technique for the detection of intruders in IoT.  The input IoT data is subjected to preprocessing to enhance the data. From the preprocessed data, the higher-order statistical features are selected using the proposed Decision tree-based Pearson Correlation Recursive Feature Elimination (DT-PCRFE) model. This method efficiently eliminates the redundant and uncorrelated features which will increase resource utilization and reduces the time complexity of the system. Then, the request from IoT devices is converted into word embedding using the feature fusion model to enhance the system robustness. Finally, a Deep Neural network (DNN) has been used to detect malicious attacks with the selected features. This proposed model experiments with the BoT-IoT dataset and the result shows the proposed model efficiency which outperforms other existing models with the accuracy of 99.2%.