Network Intrusion Detection Using Transformer and BiGRU-DNN in Edge Computing

To address the issue of class imbalance in network traffic data, which affects the network intrusion detection performance, a combined framework using transformers is proposed. First, Tomek Links, SMOTE, and WGAN are used to preprocess the data to solve the class-imbalance problem. Second, the transformer is used to encode traffic data to extract the correlation between network traffic. Finally, a hybrid deep learning network model combining a bidirectional gated current unit and deep neural network is proposed, which is used to extract longdependence features. A DNN is used to extract deep level features, and softmax is used to complete classification. Experiments were conducted on the NSLKDD, UNSWNB15, and CICIDS2017 datasets, and the detection accuracy rates of the proposed model were 99.72%, 84.86%, and 99.89% on three datasets, respectively. Compared with other relatively new deep-learning network models, it effectively improved the intrusion detection performance, thereby improving the communication security of network data.