IoT Device Identification via A Bio-Inspired Feature Selection Approach
Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun, Jiahui Li · 2023
The rapid development of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) also brings security and other problems. Device identification is a crucial tool for IoT security issues, which can detect and prevent cyber-attacks. Feature selection is an effective data preprocessing technique in IoT device identification, which can improve the performance of classification and reduce computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel wrapper feature selection approach based on the improved binary honey badger algorithm (IBHBA) to select features in IoT traffic. Four improved factors are employed in IBHBA to expand the search scope, balance the exploration and exploitation phases, and enhance the search capability. Moreover, a binary mechanism is adopted to make the algorithm more suitable for feature selection in IoT device identification. The experimental results on several real IoT traffic datasets denote that IBHBA outperforms some classical and latest comparison algorithms in the feature selection of IoT device identification.