Implementation of decision tree algorithm after clustering through weka

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IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISION TREE ALGORITHM AFTER
CLUSTERING THROUGH WEKA
1 2
Nitin Mohan Sharma Kunwar Pal
1
(Department of computer science & engineering Lovoly Professional University Jalandhar
Punjab India
2
(Department of computer science & engineering Lovely professional University Jalandhar
Punjab India

ABSTRACT

Intrusion detection systems have been used widely in most of the organizations to
secure their data from intruders. To provide more security an Intrusion Detection system have
tighter rule that means it alerts more time to the system. In this way some time it alerts the
alarm unnecessarily. These alarms are false positive. We want to reduce the false alarms of
the intrusion detection system. To increase the efficiency and accuracy of the system we have
to filter false alarms. To reduce false alarms some machine learning algorithms have been
used till date but the efficiency rate is not up to mark. In adaptive false alarms filter a
combination of machine learning algorithms is used to increase the classification accuracy of
the system. In this system best algorithm is used on the basis of decision value. First we have
to do clustering of the data then on the result we have to apply classification algorithm. K
means algorithm is used for clustering purpose. While decision tree algorithm used for the
classification purpose.

Keywords: Clustering, Classification, False Alarms, Machine Learning Algorithms, Decision
Tree.

1. INTRODUCTION

Network Security is the primary concern of any network. As we know this is the age
of internet, almost out of 10 person 5 use internet. They share important information, do
online shopping, and transaction in the bank, these all type of transaction need the security.
Our network is not secure, intruders are there. These intruders want to hack the network and
want to steal the information [1]. Some times as in the case of phishing attack an intruder
makes a illusion in web address. For example in case of state bank of India correct web

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address is statebankofindia.co.in, an intruder may change it as statebankindia.co.in.
Sometimes we cannot distinguish between these types of attack. Intruder takes the benefit of
this situation. So we need to identify such type of attacks and resolve them. Suppose a
customer done his/her transaction with fake web address. This fake web address may promote
customer to do the transaction with fake web address. Intruder may know the password of the
customer. Once the intruder knows the password of the customer intruder can log in from the
customer account. This is only one type of attack exist in this the environment .there may be
another type of attack which we want to resolve .A secure network is desirable by every
person [2]. As we know there are various type of attack on the internet .these are primarily
two types viz active and passive. Active attack means to change the content of the message
while in case of passive attack we cannot change the content. We can say passive attacks are
difficult to detect while active attack easy to detect. The network security has become an
urgent problem to be addressed [3]. Many security tools available in the market such as anti
viruses, firewall etc. anti viruses and firewall provide the internal security, when we need
security from outside the organization. Than we need intrusion detection system. The
intrusion detection system is the first line of defense against network security. It collects the
information of network flow and warns for possible attacks.

2. EARLY WORK

Machine learning algorithms have been already used to reduce false alarms in
intrusion detection system. These work shows that use of machine learning algorithms is
good to reduce false alarms. Lee and Staflo explain how to extract features of audits and how
to apply machine learning algorithm to process these extracted features [4]. After this work
use of machine learning algorithm becomes popular for classification purpose. Pietraszek
made a system for adaptive learner for alert classification to reduce false alarms into two
categories to help analyst. Law and kwok [7] used k nearest neighbor to classify alarms into
two categories. They first analyze normal profile of the system than find out deviation from
the normal behavior.

2.1 Approaches Of Various Machine learning Algorithms
Till now many machine learning algorithms are used to classify alarms into
two categories. Different algorithms behave differently in different environments. Thus we
cannot determine which algorithm is best. A unified platform is required for comparing
different algorithms. WEKA [9] is a tool which has capability to compare different
algorithms on the same plat farm. First of all WEKA requires a labeled dataset, this dataset
acquired through WIRESHARK [10].

2.2 Selection of features
When WIRESHARK [10] detects sign of attack it through alarms in specified
format. How it determines features it is described with the help of following example:-
03-01-13 13:00 response activity invalid URL [classification attempt to unauthorized access
to URL] Priority 3197.7.248.153-> 172.16.113.204
This example shows TCP packet alert for invalid URL it belongs to the classification of
attempted information leak. Where first part that is 03-01-13 13:00 shows time of attack, type
of attack invalid URL its priority is 3 and last two part shows destination and source IP
address.

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3. DATASETS CONSTRUCTION AND METHODOLOGY

This dataset contain different data of different weeks [5]. To find out false alarms we
need to resend packets of three weeks through WIRESHARK. All triggered alarms are
considered as false alarms. WIRESHARK uses color coding to show sign of attack. Suppose
for TCP protocol blue color is defined for normal activity. If few protocols shows color other
than blue than it will be considered as a sign of attack.

Table 1 Number of false alarms

Week days Week 1 Week 2
Monday 2749 1243
Tuesday 2090 1015
Wednesday 1018 1178
Thursday 1218 1311
Friday 1299 1656
Total number 8374 6403

On the basis of above table we could see how many false alarms are occurred on the network.
We make following two data sets for the analyses of false alarms.

3.1 Dataset 1
We select from table 1 8374 false alarms and by selecting 7288 true alarms. Here
ratio of true and false alarms is 1:1. This dataset will be used when number of false alarm and
true alarms are equal in number.

3.2 Dataset 2
As shown in table 1 there are 14777 false alarms and 7288 true alarms. Here ratio
of true and false alarms is 2:1. This dataset would be used when numbers of false alarms are
double than true alarms [7].
Performance of machine learning algorithm would be evaluated on the basis of following
parameters:
(i) Classification accuracy
(ii) Precision of false alarms
(iii) Recall of false alarms
Precision of false alarm = number of false alarms classified as false alarm/ number of alarm
classified as false alarm (1)
Recall of false alarm= the number of false alarms classified as false alarm/ number of false
alarms (2)
A best algorithm should have precision of 1 to show it does not classify any true alarm as
false alarm, also a recall of 1 to show it can classify every false alarm as false alarm [6]. In
fact best algorithm would have all the three parameters that classification accuracy should
also good and remaining two factors also better.

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4. PROPOSED WORK

Under this section we have developed new algorithm. This algorithm is basically a
mixture of two algorithms. First one is k means algorithm [7] and second is decision tree
algorithm. Our approach is to combine both of them for making a hybrid algorithm.

(Some notation used in the following algorithm
X- it is set of data, Dj- training set, entropy- it is the measure of impurity in a collection of
training sets, info gain- it is used to select a particular attribute to be a decision node of tree.
Entropy(S) = -P (positive) log2 P (positive)-P (Negative) log2 P (Negative) )
Step (1) For each process in the test data do.
Step (2) If x has new data call then x is cluster 1
Step (3) Else then for each process Dj in training data do
Step (4) Calculate similarity (x,Dj)
Step (5) If similarity (x,Dj) equals 1 then x is cluster 0 and exit
Step (6) Find k biggest score of similarity (x,Dj)
Step (7) Calculate similarity average for k nearest neighbor
Step (8) If similarity average>threshold then x is cluster 0
Step (9) Else x is cluster 1
Step (10) Create decision tree root node as cluster 1 and add training set S into root node as
its subset
Step (11) For root node compute entropy (root node.subset) first
Step (12) If entropy (root node.subset)==0 then root node.subset consists of records all with
the same value, return a leaf node with attribute value.
Step (13) if entropy (root node.subset) != 0 then compute info.gain for each attribute left.
Find attributes with maximum gain(S,A) create child nodes of this root node and add to root
node in the decision tree.
Step (14) for each child of the tree apply recursively until reach node entropy ==0 or reach
leaf node.

5. EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY

Under this section we produce architecture of false alarms filter that will use best
algorithm on the basis of decision value. First all passed through WEKA [9] which is a
platform to compare various machine learning algorithms. In this package we have to add
new algorithm name as classification after clustering [8]. The experimental methodology
shows classification accuracy better than previous system available in the market.
Comparison among inbuilt algorithms and new algorithm are done on the basis of decision
value. Decision value can be described with the help of following equation

Decision value =0.5*C.A. + 0.5*PFA (3)

Where C.A is the classification accuracy
P.F.A. is the precision of false alarms.
This methodology described in the following diagram.

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Alarms Default Machine Learning
Algorithm

Add Classification after
Clustering Algorithm Evaluate Result

Comparison among
Algorithms Compare with
Previous Result
Select Algorithm with best
decision value

Figure 1

6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

Under this part we run our sets constructed from WIRESHARK through WEKA.
Algorithms are chosen than shows the output of the classification accuracy, because our
decision value depends on classification accuracy and precision of false alarms. By choosing
customized algorithm of classification after clustering algorithm we see classification
accuracy is increased. We can see it in the following table:

Table 3

Machine Classification Precision Recall of
learning accuracy of false false
algorithm alarm alarms
Classification
after 96.75 0.867 0.976
clustering

6. CONCLUSION

By using such a methodology we have reduced false alarms. It also reduces burden
of security officer. Before reduction of false alarms security officer needs to analyze more
alarms, now if security officer suppose to analyze less alarms in comparison to previous work
than it definitely saves the time of security officer. IDS have the efficiency to detect
malicious activity and report it to the user. When IDS do not capable to identify all the
attacks in that case the developer of the IDS make the security rules tighter than previous one.
Due to these tighter rules sometimes IDS alarms unnecessarily. Actually these are false
positive alarms. So no need to alert the user while such type of signs is found by IDS, in other
case if the developer looses the security rule than it may happen some true attacks are not
identified by the IDS. Due to the inherent limitations of the IDSs we have to filter the false

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alarms from the system. Our aim is to make our system hundred percent secure. So here we
want to make a system which can easily identify attack and make the system in such a way
that it can identify maximum number of attack. So we want to develop such a system which
does not provide hundred percent securities but enhance the security of the network.

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Web Resource:
[9] WEKA-waikato environment for knowledge analysis (open source)
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka
[10] Wireshark packet capture
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