New Algorithms for the Detection of Malicious Traffic in 5G-MEC

This paper presents a new Intrusion Detection System (IDS) using a 3-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), capable of identifying malicious network traffic. We employ a new injective algorithm to encode network traffic without loss of information. We also include a new algorithm to decode, encoded RGB images back into network traffic. We evaluate the proposed IDS in terms of its computational complexity in for example: time, memory and CPU utilisation for the encoding and decoding algorithms, and its accuracy and loss during training and detection. Lastly, we compare the proposed IDS against a significant IDS algorithm that uses a different approach for encoding, decoding and CNN detection.