Title: An approach towards hybrid feature selection for detection of DDoS attack

Authors: Anuja Patil; Deepak Kshirsagar

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India ' Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India

Abstract: Even though the organisation uses various security measures the attacks over the internet are increasing day by day. This paper proposes a hybrid feature selection model for the detection of a DDoS attack. In this paper, the two-step hybrid feature selection method is used. The CICIDS2017 dataset with 84 features is used for the implementation. Information gain, gain ratio, and correlation filter-based algorithms are used for the ranking of features and then the forward selection approach is used to reduce the features up to 32. The system gives higher accuracy of 88.7373% for the correctly classifying DDoS attack.

Keywords: feature selection; information gain; DDoS attack.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAC.2020.114399

International Journal of Autonomic Computing, 2020 Vol.3 No.3/4, pp.274 - 289

Received: 03 May 2020
Accepted: 27 Nov 2020
Published online: 20 Apr 2021 *

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