A Clustering Approach to Wireless Network Intrusion Detection

  • Authors:
  • Shi Zhong;Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar;Shyarn V. Nath

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida Atlantic University;Florida Atlantic University;Florida Atlantic University

  • Venue:
  • ICTAI '05 Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Intrusion detection in wireless networks has become an indispensable component of any useful wireless networksecurity systems, and has recently gained attention in both research and industry communities due to widespread use of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). This paper focuses on detecting intrusions or anomalous behaviors in WLANs with data clustering techniques. We first explore the security vulnerabilities of 802.11 or WI-FI networks and summarize the network traffic metrics that are important to model the security of wireless networks. Based on the metric studied we propose a clustering-based intrusion detection approach and evaluate it on a real-world large wireless network traffic dataset. The evaluation results demonstrate the eflectiveness of our proposed intrusion detection approach for wireless networks.