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Fog and mobile edge computing (MEC) will play a key role in the upcoming fifth generation (5G) mobile networks to support decentralized applications, data analytics and management into the network itself by using a highly distributed compute model. Furthermore, increasing attention is paid to providing user-centric cybersecurity solutions, which particularly require collecting, processing and analyzing significantly large amount of data traffic and huge number of network connections in 5G networks. In this regard, this paper proposes a MEC-oriented solution in 5G mobile networks to detect network anomalies in real-time and in autonomic way. Our proposal uses deep learning techniques to analyze network flows and to detect network anomalies. Moreover, it uses policies in order to provide an efficient and dynamic management system of the computing resources used in the anomaly detection process. The paper presents relevant aspects of the deployment of the proposal and experimental results to show its performance.
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This work has been partially supported by a Séneca Foundation grant within the Human Resources Researching Postdoctoral Program 2018, a postdoctoral INCIBE grant within the “Ayudas para la Excelencia de los Equipos de Investigación Avanzada en Ciberseguridad” Program, with code INCIBEI-2015-27352, the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme under Grant Agreement Number H2020-ICT-2014-2/671672 - SELFNET (Framework for Self-Organized Network Management in Virtualized and Software Defined Networks), and the European Commission (FEDER/ERDF).
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Fernández Maimó, L., Huertas Celdrán, A., Gil Pérez, M. et al. Dynamic management of a deep learning-based anomaly detection system for 5G networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 10, 3083–3097 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-018-0813-4
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