Open AccessFrom Unknown to Similar: Unknown Protocol Syntax Analysis for Network Flows in IoT
Author(s) -
Yichuan Wang,
Han Yu,
Xinhong Hei,
Binbin Bai,
Wenjiang Ji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
security and communication networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1939-0114
pISSN - 1939-0122
DOI - 10.1155/2021/9179286
Subject(s) - computer science , protocol (science) , the internet , communications protocol , computer security , apriori algorithm , feature (linguistics) , internet layer , computer network , internet protocol suite , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , world wide web , association rule learning , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology
Internet of Things (IoT) is the development and extension of computer, Internet, and mobile communication network and other related technologies, and in the new era of development, it increasingly shows its important role. To play the role of the Internet of Things, it is especially important to strengthen the network communication information security system construction, which is an important foundation for the Internet of Things business relying on Internet technology. Therefore, the communication protocol between IoT devices is a point that cannot be ignored, especially in recent years; the emergence of a large number of botnet and malicious communication has seriously threatened the communication security between connected devices. Therefore, it is necessary to identify these unknown protocols by reverse analysis. Although the development of protocol analysis technology has been quite mature, it is impossible to identify and analyze the unknown protocols of pure bitstreams with zero a priori knowledge using existing protocol analysis tools. In this paper, we make improvements to the existing protocol analysis algorithm, summarize and learn from the experience and knowledge of our predecessors, improve the algorithm ideas based on the Apriori algorithm idea, and perform feature string finding under the idea of composite features of CFI (Combined Frequent Items) algorithm. The advantages of existing algorithm ideas are combined together to finally propose a more efficient OFS (Optimal Feature Strings) algorithm with better performance in the face of bitstream protocol feature extraction problems.