Enhanced Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks Using Deep Autoencoders with Feature Selection Techniques

An enormous number of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications and their networks have significantly impacted people’s lives in diverse situations. With the increasing adoption of these applications in various sectors, ensuring reliability and security has become a critical concern. Moreover, the network that interconnected IoT devices uses advanced communications norms and technologies to capture and transmit data. Still, these networks are subject to various types of attacks that will lead to the loss of user data. Concurrently, the field of anomaly detection for the Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing rapid expansion. This expansion requires a thorough analysis of application trends and existing gaps. Furthermore, it is critical in detecting interesting phenomena such as device damage and unknown events. However, this task is tough due to the unpredictable nature of anomalies and the complexity of the environment. This paper offers a technique that uses an autoencoder neural network to identify anomalous network communications in IoT networks. More specifically, we propose and implement a model that uses DAE (deep autoencoder) to detect and classify the network data, with an ANOVA F-Test for the feature selection. The proposed model is validated using the NSL-KDD dataset. Compared to some IoT-based anomaly detection models, the experimental results reveal that the suggested model is more efficient at enhancing the accuracy of detecting malicious data. The simulation results show that it works better, with an overall accuracy rate of 85% and 92% successively for the binary and multi-class classifications.