Intrusion Detection Method for Internet of Vehicles Based on Parallel Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Features

The problems with network security that the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) faces are becoming more noticeable as it continues to evolve. Deep learning-based intrusion detection techniques can assist the IoV in preventing network threats. However, previous methods usually employ a single deep learning model to extract temporal or spatial features, or extract spatial features first and then temporal features in a serial manner. These methods usually have the problem of insufficient extraction of spatio-temporal features of the IoV, which affects the performance of intrusion detection and leads to a high false-positive rate. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes an intrusion detection method for IoV based on parallel analysis of spatio-temporal features (PA-STF). First, we built an optimal subset of features based on feature correlations of IoV traffic. Then, we used the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) to extract spatio-temporal features in the IoV traffic in a parallel manner. Finally, we fused the spatio-temporal features extracted in parallel based on the self-attention mechanism and used a multilayer perceptron to detect attacks in the Internet of Vehicles. The experimental results show that the PA-STF method reduces the false-positive rate by 1.95% and 1.57% on the NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB15 datasets, respectively, with the accuracy and F1 score also being superior.