HC-DTTSVM: A Network Intrusion Detection Method Based on Decision Tree Twin Support Vector Machine and Hierarchical Clustering

Network intrusion detection is an important technology in national cyberspace security strategy and has become a research hotspot in various cyberspace security issues in recent years. The development of effective and efficient intelligent network intrusion detection methods using advanced machine learning algorithms is of great importance for defending against various network intrusions in complex network environments. In this study, a network intrusion detection method based on decision tree twin support vector machine and hierarchical clustering, named HC-DTTWSVM, is proposed, which can effectively detect different categories of network intrusion. First, the hierarchical clustering algorithm is applied to construct the decision tree for network traffic data, where the bottom-up merging approach is used to maximize the separation of the upper nodes of the decision tree, which reduces the error accumulation in the construction of the decision tree. Then, twin support vector machines are embedded in the constructed decision tree to implement the network intrusion detection model, which can effectively detect the network intrusion category in a top-down manner. The detection performance of the proposed HC-DTTWSVM method is evaluated on NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB15 intrusion detection benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that HC-DTTWSVM can effectively detect different categories of network intrusion and achieves comparable detection performance compared to some of the recently proposed network intrusion detection methods.