Intrusion detection system for vehicular ad hoc network attacks based on machine learning techniques

Abstract

The vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is a new subcategory of mobile ad-hoc networks that has excellent potential application in intelligent transportation systems. The cyberattack on vehicles can lead to privacy leaks and financial losses and could even become a national public safety issue. In this paper, a multi-level Intrusion Detection System based on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is developed in order to detect multiple types of attacks on VANET. The proposed model combines two feature selection techniques: random forest (RF) and fast correlation-based filter (FCBF) and four tree-based algorithms: extreme gradient boosting decision tree, RF, decision tree, and ExtraTrees, for classification performance. Moreover, the model is evaluated using CICIDS2017 dataset and Python ML libraries in Jupyter Notebook such as scikit-learn and Pandas. Experiment results show that the proposed model using the stacking method achieves 99.86% attack detection accuracy, 99.85% precision with hypo-parameter (HPO), and 99.83% attack detection accuracy without using HPO. The experimental findings on the vehicular network demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution and the ability to implement it in real-time environments.