Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) device identification has become an indispensable prerequisite for secure network management and security policy implementation. However, existing passive device identification methods work under a “closed-world” assumption, failing to take into account the emergence of new and unfamiliar devices in open scenarios. To combat the open-world challenge, we propose a novel evolutionary model which can continuously learn with new device traffic. Our model employs a decoupled architecture suitable for evolutionary learning, which consists of device feature representation and device inference. For device feature representation, an auto-encoder based on metric learning is innovatively introduced to mine latent feature representation of device traffic and form independent compact clusters for each device. For device inference, the nearest class mean (NCM) classification strategy is adopted on the feature representation. In addition, to alleviate the forgetting of old devices during evolutionary learning with new devices, we develop a less-forgetting constraint based on spatial knowledge distillation and impose control on the distribution distance between clusters to reduce inter-class interference. We evaluate our method on the union of three public IoT traffic datasets, in which the accuracy is as high as 87.9% after multi-stage evolutionary learning, outperforming all state-of-the-art methods under diverse experimental settings.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2018YFB0803402), the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61702504) and the Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project (Grant No.KFZ0120200004).
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Bian, J., Yu, N., Li, H., Zhu, H., Wang, Q., Sun, L. (2023). An Evolutionary Learning Approach Towards the Open Challenge of IoT Device Identification. In: Li, F., Liang, K., Lin, Z., Katsikas, S.K. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25538-0_2
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