Intrusion detection method for internet of things based on the spiking neural network and decision tree method

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)
Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2023, pp. 2278~2288
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Intrusion detection method for internet of things based on the
spiking neural network and decision tree method
Ahmed R. Zarzoor1
, Nadia Adnan Shiltagh Al-Jamali2
, Dina A. Abdul Qader2
1
Directorate of Inspection, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq
2
Department of Computer Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 25, 2022
Revised Oct 16, 2022
Accepted Nov 8, 2022
The prevalence of using the applications for the internet of things (IoT) in
many human life fields such as economy, social life, and healthcare made IoT
devices targets for many cyber-attacks. Besides, the resource limitation of IoT
devices such as tiny battery power, small storage capacity, and low calculation
speed made its security a big challenge for the researchers. Therefore, in this
study, a new technique is proposed called intrusion detection system based on
spike neural network and decision tree (IDS-SNNDT). In this method, the DT
is used to select the optimal samples that will be hired as input to the SNN,
while SNN utilized the non-leaky integrate neurons fire (NLIF) model in order
to reduce latency and minimize devices’ power usage. Also, a rand order code
(ROC) technique is used with SNN to detect cyber-attacks. The proposed
method is evaluated by comparing its performance with two other methods:
IDS-DNN and IDS-SNNTLF by using three performance metrics: detection
accuracy, latency, and energy usage. The simulation results have shown that
IDS-SNNDT attained low power usage and less latency in comparison with
IDS-DNN and IDS-SNNTLF methods. Also, IDS-SNNDT has achieved high
detection accuracy for cyber-attacks in contrast with IDS-SNNTLF.
Keywords:
Deep neural network
Internet of things
Intrusion detection system
Spike neural network
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Ahmed R. Zarzoor
Directorate of Inspection, Ministry of Health
Baghdad, Iraq
Email: Ahmed.Arjabi@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
Internet of things (IoT) smart devices are interconnected with each other, and to the internet via using
protocols. Also, these devices are expanding rapidly and playing a pivotal role in human daily life. They have
been used in many applications such as smart city, home, and car applications [1]–[3]. Consequently, there will
be a community of interconnected smart things sharing and exchanging data in the world. Cisco company has
foreseen that above than 200 billion smart things will be communicated to the internet via 2030 [4]. So, IoT
devices are vulnerable to attacks besides their resource limitation making their data security the main challenge
for researchers [5]. Moreover, it makes the security methods for key management, cyber-attacks detection, and
trust management among the significant defies of the IoT network [6]. For instance, some researchers are
handling security problems and defying the IoT network by using intrusion detection systems (IDS) [7]. The
traditional IDS works on two levels: host level and network level [8]. The IDS works on the network level and
is considered the most suitable secure method for the IoT network [9] due to the limitation of the IoT nodes’
resources (such as the low battery power and small storage capacity). Besides, the IoT network needs to be
trained in either online traffic (i.e., live traffic) or offline (i.e., suitable dataset) in order to predict cyber-attacks.
However, most researchers preferred to use the offline one to train the network because of the high cost of the
online one [10].

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However, there are techniques for identifying cyber-attack used by IDS which are: the IDS-based
signature method, IDS-based anomaly method, and hybrid IDS [11], [12]. The signature technique is more
appropriate to detect known attacks by utilizing a known pattern store in the database (i.e., supervised learning).
Thus, the signature method is not suitable to detect unknown attacks. Consequently, the IDS-based anomaly
method is used to detect unknown attacks (i.e., unsupervised learning). While the hybrid method used both
techniques: signature and anomaly to identify the cyber-attacks. Many researchers worked with anomaly
methods via utilizing machine learning (ML) algorithms [13]–[15]. One of the common learning algorithms
that are used by IDS based anomaly method is the deep learning algorithm. The DL scheme consists of an input
layer, more than one hidden layer, and an output layer. So, the significant features are extracted from the input
data via passing the data in multi-hidden layers, and learning is achieved by updating the weight in order to
classify output data [16]–[18]. The main disadvantage of the DL is the overfitting of training besides the high
exhaustion of network resources [19]. Therefore, the third generation of neural network (NN) called spike
neural network (SNN) is used in [20]–[22] to enhance power usage and reduce attack detection time.
Nevertheless, the main disadvantage of the SNN is that it is hard to train in comparison with the NN [23].
The SNN is created from a neural network that is spotted in biology, where the biological neurons
depend on tentative dimensions. Also, the biological “synaptic” neurons are able to take an input signal and
make an output signal, in any case of the action for the remainder of the neurons. In another word, they have
internal dynamics which reason biological neurons modify through time. So, with time bypassing the neuron
resort to emptying and reducing their membrane possibility. Thence, scattered input spike shall not reason a
biological neuron to spike or fire [23], [24]. The biological neuron connected with each other by synaptic parts
with weights. So, SNN learning is achieved by modifying the synaptic weights by utilizing either an
unsupervised or supervised method [25]. The most common model to train SNN is called synaptic time-
dependent plasticity (STDP) unsupervised approach [26]. The STDP is utilized along with the side restrained fit
spiking threshold to learn exemplification for input spike paradigms which are appropriate for classification
[27]. The spikes are encoded by converting the input wave signal into a sequence of spikes “spiketrains” in a
process called “encoding”. There are two types of encoding: rate code and temporal code. In the rate code, the
firing rate is counted and stored in a counter, while in the temporal code the spike information is saved at the
timing of a fire. The encoded spike in STDP is trained by using leaky integrate neurons fire (LIF) as a model for
representing the membrane possibility. The main problem LIF is hard to train therefore in this study the non-
LIF (NLIF) is utilized due to its simplicity to train and gives high performance in comparison with LIF [20].
Therefore, the main contribution of this study is to propose IDS based on the SNN algorithm with the
decision tree algorithm as a new method called IDS-SNNDT to detect cyber-attacks in the IoT, where DT is
utilized to select the optimal samples that attain input value to SNN, while the SNN is trained via using the
NLIF model on the offline dataset (IoT Botnet 2020) and uses rank code order (ROC) method to detect cyber-
attack. The rest of this paper organizes: section 2 explores the related studies, section 3 describes the IDS-
SNNDT method, and section 4 discusses the implementation of the proposed method and results. The final
section includes the study conclusion.
2. RELATED WORKS
The SNN has been utilized by IDS to detect attacks on IoT devices by researchers due to its usage of
less energy and achieving minimum latency in comparison with DNN. For instance, Johnson et al. [28] used
SNN and “glial cell” to detect the Trojan attack via using agreeable firing or “spiking rate” on IoT hardware
devices. So, when the spiking rate value is not in the acceptable range that means the Trojan detection of the
IoT device otherwise, no attack is identified in the IoT device. Maciąg et al. [29] used unsupervised anomaly
identification in an IoT data stream from online Yahoo datasets called OeSNN. The core idea of OeSNN is
about utilizing an input encoding layer that operated on single time series via using gaussian receptive fields
(GRF) to simplify the SNN train, so as to identify abnormal data stream modification. In [30], a semi-
supervised abnormal detection technique is created according to the evolving SNN (eSNN) called “Gryphon”.
In order to detect manifold behaviors and abnormalities related to cyber-attacks that are recognized as advanced
persistent threats (APT). In eSNN, one class is utilized to categorize true valued datasets, where each data
pattern is a series of spikes via using rank order population encoding (ROPE). So, in this technique they used
eSNN to make a decision rule, that correctly specifies the label (class) to new unlabeled data.
In [31], a supervised method is proposed for near-sensor abnormality detection via using a long-
shortened time period long short-term memory spiking neural networks (LSNN), approach. In LSNN, two
classes of signals are classified: healthy and sanitary by using the backpropagation through time (BPTT)
technique. Xing et al. [32] proposed a real time eSNN method bounded by Boltzmann machine technique to
detect abnormal modification in data streams. The main issue is about using a Boltzmann machine method to
increase the categorize accuracy and at the same time reduce the computational resources demands. Jaoudi
et al. [33] utilized SNNs to detect cyber-attack in vehicles based on the support vector machine (SVM) method.

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They convert autoencoder to SNN by applying an adjustment process which obtained the weight and biases.
Also, SVM method is used in the training process to trace the vector distance between input and output patterns
instead of using labels, so as to learning the data packets kinds. Thus, the threshold is computed by taking the
mean loss or error for all training patterns. Consequently, if the reform loss for the pattern is less than calculate
threshold values then identifies the pattern as a normal, otherwise identifies it as an anomaly.
Yusob et al. [34] proposed a technique to detect anomaly data samples based on the SNN. The
technique consisted of three phases: the first phase is used to initialize the weight values utilizing the ROPE
approach, the second phase is used to represent the real input data to spike values by utilizing the GRF
approach, and the last phase is used to detect the anomaly data pattern. The anomaly data detection process
occurs only when the neuron in SNN is spiked. Sahu et al. [35] utilized SNN to identify anomaly movement
for automatic EEG movement during schizophrenia. They used two techniques: temporal contrast and Poisson
probability to find the probability of abnormality emptying of each channel. Also, in our study, the
IDS-SNNDT method utilized the Poisson encoder but with temporal-based ROC so as to detect cyber-attacks
in the offline dataset IoT Botnet 2020.
3. STUDY METHOD
The IDS-SNNDT method is based on the SNN network to detect cyber-attacks in IoT devices based
on the Poisson encoding and temporal coding ROC techniques. The encoding process in SNN is the process of
transforming wave signal to spikes values so as to be utilized as an input value of a node. For SNN, there are
two types of encoding approaches: rate code and temporal code [36]. The rate codes firm the information in
the coverage rate of spike obstetrics of one or set of nodes in a way that drives to a value that characterizes the
activity of the nodes. In the temporal coding method, accurate timing of spikes and among action potentials is
used to encode information. This involves the full timing details in relevance to a proportional timing of spikes
released via different nodes or just the order that a group of nodes produces specific spikes. In IDS-SNNDT a
method of temporal code called ROC is used to detect attacks in offline datasets. The ROC is a method that is
established according to the firing order of a group of nodes in relation to the universal reference (i.e.,
considering the accuracy timing of the spikes) [37], while the Poisson encoding [38] process, a value of wave
signal that is taken as an input value of a node, is normalized among the high and low value. The normalized
value represents a probability (P) over a time window, where the lower timestamp TS the resulting sequence
of spike “spike train” of the encoded wave signal at each TS has a likelihood P, which contains a spike. So,
when likelihood P is high then it means more fires “spiketrain” will have. Thus, the information will be encoded
more precisely. Figure 1 demonstrates the IDS-SNNDT technique.
Figure 1. Illustrate IDS-SNNDT method

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In the data preprocessing, the IoT Botnet dataset 2020 [39] is used in this study for the training and
testing of the IDS-SNNDT method, where 70% of the dataset is utilized for training and 30% of the dataset is
used for testing. The dataset includes more than 72 million records that contain cyber-attacks such as disk
operating systems (DoS), distributed denial-of-service (DdoS), and service scan attacks. In this step, the clean
data process is performed by removing redundant data and ignoring empty space. Besides, converts data types
(float) to the value in the range [0,1] so as to avoid errors. The data in the dataset is scaled to the value between
[0,1] by using the “min-max normalization” function (1) [40]. In order to ensure that the SNN training process
is not biased to a specific class and guarantees uniformities of learning.
𝑥′
=
𝑥−min⁡
(𝑥)
max(𝑥)−min⁡
(𝑥)
⁡ (1)
In the second step, the entropy and information gain are used with a decision tree (DT) [41], [42],
where the algorithm uses select specific features from the IoT Botnet features. The DT is based on a tree
structure, in which the whole dataset is divided into two subsets, and a subset is divided into two subsets until
reaching the final data. The process of dividing the DT is performed by using the entropy method, which is
used to measure uncertainty in a dataset of observations. The entropy and information gain (IG) are calculated
by utilizing (2) and (3) [43]. However, the total number of features in the IoT Botnet dataset 2020 dataset is 49
with 2 labels (1, 0) that contain 1, 940, 389 records. The final features count according to the entropy and GI
with DT are 19 feature selections, see Table 1.
𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑦(𝑆) = ∑ −𝑃𝑖⁡
𝑐
𝑖=1 𝑙𝑜𝑔2𝑃𝑖⁡ (2)
𝐼𝐺(𝑌, 𝑋) = 𝐸(𝑌) − 𝐸(𝑌|𝑋)⁡ (3)
Table 1. IoT Botnet dataset 2020 dataset final features selection
No Feature Description
1 pkSeqID Row Identifier
2 Proto Textual representation of transaction protocols presents in network flow
3 Saddr Source IP address
4 Sport Source port number
5 Daddr Destination IP address
6 Dport Destination port number
7 state_number Numerical representation of feature state
8 Seq Argus sequence number
9 Mean Average duration of aggregated records
10 Stddev Standard deviation of aggregated records
11 Min Minimum duration of aggregated records
12 Max Maximum duration of aggregated records
13 N_IN_Conn_P_ DstIP Number of inbound connections per destination IP
14 N_IN_Conn_P_SrcIP Number of inbound connections per source IP
15 Srate Source-to-destination packets per second
16 Drate Destination-to-source packets per second
17 Attack Class label: 0 for Normal traffic, 1 for Attack Traffic
18 Category Traffic category
19 Subcategory Traffic subcategory
In the next step, the NLIF model is used to train SNN. The model represents by using (4), where I(t)
is the input current, V represents the membrane voltage of neuron j that asses in time during energizing with
an I(t), where Wji is the weight of the synaptic linkage between input node i and output node j, ti is the spiking
time of i, while g(t) is the ‘spike’ or high waveform in this study the g(t) is assumed equal to zero for t<0 or
t<T (timestep). So, when I(t) is applied the V maximizes with time till it reaches a steady threshold voltage
(Vth). At this point, a spike occurs and V resets to its restarting potential point, after that the NLIF persists to
run. Also, a refractory period (trp) is utilized to the boundary spiking frequency of a node by stopping it from
spiking over that period. For input, steady input I(t)=I is the threshold voltage. The spiking frequency for
constant I(t) is calculated using (5). To illustrate how nodes “neurons” operates in the NLIF model. Figure 2(a)
demonstrates input for four input nodes at the spike time (t1, t2, t3, and t4). Figure 2(b) shows synaptic current
for the four nodes that are represented by g(t-ti) hops on time ti, while Figure 2(c) demonstrates how Vj(t)
increases the firing threshold. Finally, Figure 2(d) shows how the output node j sends a spike when the Vj
threshold is passed. So, the node emits a spike early than in the LIF model since it waits after t4 to increase the
Vj(t). Therefore, the NLIF reduces delay and consumes less energy in comparison with the LIF model.

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𝐼(𝑡) = 𝐶
𝑑𝑉𝑗(𝑡)
𝑑𝑡
⁡= ∑ 𝑊𝑗𝑖⁡𝑔(𝑡 − 𝑡𝑖)
𝑖 ⁡⁡ (4)
𝑆(𝐼) =
𝐼
𝐶𝑉𝑡ℎ+𝑡𝑟𝑝⁡𝐼
(5)
time
(a)
(b)
time
(c)
(d)
Figure 2. NLIF model: (a) four input time spikes, (b) the synaptic current of the four spikes time, (c) how
membrane voltage of node j (Vj(t)) increases the firing threshold, and (d) how the output neuron j sends a
spike when the Vj threshold is passed
In this study, the SNN consisted of an input layer, two hidden layers, and an output layer as in
Figure 3. The GRF method is used to encode information into firing times for the input layer by utilizing (6),
where each input information is ranged between (minimum value Vmin and maximum value Vmax) with 𝜎⁡is
centered by using (7). The spike timing ranges from 0 to T. The T value is calculated by using (8). The 𝜎 is
specified by the crossing points of the V with identical Gaussian summits: the ith
input receives a spike at
T-𝑎𝑖(𝑉). So, if 𝑎𝑖(𝑉) >0.01 and no spikes then the nearest value of v to the 𝜎 will be taken, as shown in
Figure 3, where V=0.5. Also, the two hidden layers are used to update leaning weight via using a
backpropagation algorithm to alleviate error and computed by using (9), where Wi is the new weight and (b) is
the learning rate that represents the minimum value of the error function. Besides, the ROC algorithm is applied
on the output layer to get the output value, the order is calculated by utilizing (10), ne is the elected output
node, nj is the input node, the mod is the modulation factor that gives value in the range (0,1) and order(ne) is
njs’ spiking order value, which established as results of the V encoding. To demonstrate, let V=0.5, W0, ne=0.5,
and order n0=4. Thus, the predicted value (PV) 0.52=0.25 and according to the PV, the cyber-attack will be
detected where the PV is in the range (0,1). Also, when all PV values are less than 0.5 the output node will not
detect any type of attack. Otherwise, the highest PV will be selected to identify the attack type, as shown in
Figure 4. For instance, in Figure 5, the DoS attack is identified, it has maximum PV in comparison with PV of
other attacks (DDoS, scan OS, scan services, theft data refiltration (TDF) any theft keylogging (TK)).
𝑎𝑖(𝑉) =
1
𝜎√2𝜋
exp (
(𝑥−𝜇)2
𝜎2 ) (6)
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𝜇𝑖 = 𝑉𝑚𝑖𝑛 + (𝑉
𝑚𝑎𝑥 − 𝑉𝑚𝑖𝑛)⁡.
𝑖
𝑛−1
⁡⁡⁡⁡𝑓𝑜𝑟⁡𝑖 = 0⁡𝑡𝑜⁡𝑛 − 1 (7)
𝑇 = max(𝑎𝑖(𝑉)) (8)
𝑊𝑖 = 𝑊𝑖 − 𝑏(
𝜕𝐸𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟
𝜕𝑊𝑖
) (9)
𝑃𝑉 = ∑ 𝑊𝑛𝑗, 𝑛𝑒
𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑤⁡𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒⁡𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒−1
𝑗=0 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟(𝑛𝑒)
(10)
Figure 3. IDS-SNNDT structure
Figure 4. GRF code method

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Figure 5. The DoS is identified by utilizing ROC method
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The study method is implemented on the personal laptop type Lenovo, having a 2.6 GHz Intel
Core i5 8th
generation processor, 4 GB RAM, and Windows 10 operating system. Three scenarios were
performed to evaluate the performance of the study method: one for an IDS-SNNDTLF method using the LIF
model, the second one for the IDS-SNNDT method using the NLIF model, and the third scenario for the
IDS-DNN. The three scenarios were implemented via using python language libraries: snnTroch to implement
(IDS-SNNDT and IDS-SNNTLF) method and TensorFlow and panda libraries to implement IDS-DNN. For
IDS-DNN, the numbers of nodes used are 100 for the input layer and 40 for the hidden layer, as shown in
Table 2. For the IDS-SNNTLF and IDS-DNNDT, the (Vth=65 mV) for the input layer node, while
(Vth=65 mV) for the hidden layer node and output layer node and learning rate 0.001 and the max depth of the
decision tree is 3, as shown in Table 3. The performance of three scenarios has been evaluated by utilizing
three metrics: accuracy of detection (AD), latency, and energy usage. The three metrics have been calculated
using (11) to (15), respectively [44], where, in (13) to (15), the Eenegy_Tx represents the amount of power
usage required to transmit data (k) with distance (d) from one node to another one, Eenegy_Rx represents the
amount of power usage which required to receive data (k) with distance (d) from other nodes..
Table 2. Parameters details for IDS-DNN
Parameter Value
Input neuron 100
Hidden neuron 20
Activation function Rectified linear unit (ReLU)
Epochs 100/10
Batch size 64
Optimizer Adam
Dropout rate 0.9
Table 3. Parameters details for IDS-SNNDT
Parameter Value
max_depth for DT 3
learning rate 0.001
batch size 64
Threshold voltage Vth of input layer node 15 mV
Threshold voltage Vth of hidden/output layer node 65 mV
Membrane resistance (all nodes) 1 MΩ
Membrane time constant (all nodes) 20 ms
𝐴𝐷 =
𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒⁡𝑁𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒+𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒⁡𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒⁡𝑁𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒+𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒⁡𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒+𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒⁡𝑁𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒+𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒⁡𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒
⁡ (11)
𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 =
∑ 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑⁡𝑜𝑓⁡𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒⁡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡⁡𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑⁡𝑡𝑜⁡𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟⁡𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎⁡𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡⁡𝑡𝑜⁡𝑡ℎ𝑒⁡𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡⁡𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑒⁡
𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟⁡𝑜𝑓⁡𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑⁡𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎⁡𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡⁡𝑎𝑡⁡𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡⁡𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑒
(12)
𝑁𝑜𝑑𝑒⁡𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑦⁡𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 = 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙⁡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 − |𝐸𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑦𝑇𝑥 + ⁡𝐸𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑦𝑅𝑥|⁡ (13)
𝐸𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑦𝑇𝑥(𝑑, 𝑘) = {
𝑘𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐 + ⁡𝑘𝜀𝑎𝑚𝑝⁡𝑑2
, 𝑑 < 𝑑0
⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡⁡
𝑘𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐 + 𝑘𝜀𝑎𝑚𝑝⁡𝑑4
, 𝑑 ≥ 𝑑0⁡
(14)
𝐸𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑦𝑅𝑥(𝑘) = 𝑘𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐 + 𝑘𝐸𝑝𝑎⁡ (15)

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The three scenarios are applied to the dataset IoT Botnet 2020 (where 70% of the dataset is utilized
for training and 30% of the dataset is used for testing). The dataset includes more than 72,000,000 records that
contain attacks such as DoS, DDoS, Scan OS, TDF, and TK attacks. The results have shown for the accuracy
of detection metric, the IDS-DNN achieves high accuracy of detection for training and testing of DoS (95.59%,
95.59%), DDoS ( 92.18 %, 92.11%), TDF (94.26%, 94.15%), TK (99.44%, 99.55%), OS (99.90%, 99.90%) in
comparison with IDS-SNNDT DoS (94.00%, 94.50%), DDoS ( 91.99 %, 90.04%), TDF (93.22%, 98.03%),
TK (99.66%, 99.80%), OS (99.88%, 99.70%) and IDS-SNNTLF, DoS (90.00%, 95.59%), DDoS (90.90 %,
89.90%), TDF (88.22%, 90.10%), TK (94.66%, 92.33%), OS (95.88%, 96.20%), as shown in Table 4 and
Figure 6. Nevertheless, the IDS-SNNDT method gives high accuracy of detection in contrast with
IDS-SNNDTLF. On the contrary, for latency metric, the IDS-SNNDT method achieves less delay in
comparison with IDS-DNN and IDS-SNNTLF, see Figure 7. Also, for energy usage metric the IDS-SNNDT
method consumes less power in contrast to the IDS-DNN and IDS-SNNTLF method, see Figure 8.
Table 4. Accuracy of detection details
Method Accuracy of Detection
DoS DDoS TDF TK OS
Train Test Train Test Train Test Train Test Train Test
IDS-DNN 95.59 95.59 92.18 92.11 94.26 94.15 99.55 99.66 99.90 99.98
IDS-SNNDT 94 94.5 91.99 90.04 99.66 98.03 99.88 99.80 99.88 99.70
IDS-SNNTLF 90 92.54 90.90 89.90 88.22 90.10 94.66 92.34 95.88 96.20
Figure 6. Illustrates accuracy of detection for IDS-DNN, IDS-SNNDT and IDS-SNNTLF method
Figure 7. Illustrates latency for IDS-DNN, IDS-SNNDT and IDS-SNNTLF method

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Figure 8. Power usage for IDS-DNN, IDS-SNNDT and IDS-SNNTLF method
5. CONCLUSION
The IDS-SNNDT method is proposed in this study to improve the performance of IDS in a way that
meets the IoT network resources restriction. The method has been established based on the DT and SNN. The
DT is used to select the features and SNN is utilized to detect cyber-attacks. The SNN is established by the
NLIF model in order to minimize the delay and reduce devices’ energy consumption. The SNN consisted of
three layers: an input layer, two hidden layers, and an output layer. The GRF algorithm has been used to encode
selected features to hire them as the input values for the input layer, while the ROC method has been used to
detect cyber-attack based on the PV.
However, the study method has been implemented by using Python language and applied to the IoT
Botnet 2020 dataset. Also, the method is evaluated with two methods via utilizing three metrics: accuracy of
detection and latency and energy usage on three scenarios: IDS-DNN, IDS-SNNDT, and IDS-SNNTLF. The
implementation results have shown that IDS-SNNDT gives low power usage and less latency in comparison
with IDS-SNNTLF and IDS-DNN. Besides, its success in achieving higher accuracy of cyber-attack detection
in comparison with IDS-SNNTLF.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to appreciate all the excellent suggestions of anonymous reviewers to enhance
the quality of this paper. Also, the authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or
publication of this article.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Ahmed R. Zarzoor received his M.Sc. degree in software engineering from
University of Bradford, UK, Bradford in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Post-
Graduation Studies Iraqi Commission for Computer and informatics, Baghdad, Iraq. He is
currently a Director of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. His main
interest includes WSN, IoTs, MANET, computer networks and security, and soft computing. He
can be contacted at Ahmed.Arjabi@gmail.com.
Nadia Adnan Shiltagh Al-Jamali received a B.Sc. degree in control and systems
engineering, an M.Sc. degree in control engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering
from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Her fields of interest are computer control,
wireless sensor networks, intelligent systems, neural networks, and robotics. She can be contacted
at nadia.aljamali@coeng.uobaghdad.edu.iq.
Dina A. Abdul Qader received a B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from
Baghdad University, Iraq, in 2006 and an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the
University of Baghdad, Iraq, in 2012. Currently, as an assistant lecturer, Dina is working as a
faculty member in the College of Engineering at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. Her research
interests include machine learning, neural network, artificial intelligence, convolutional neural
network, image processing, regression, classification, robot, control, and FPGA. She can be
contacted at dina_aldaloo@coeng.uobaghdad.edu.iq.

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