An Efficient Intrusion Detection System Using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques in SDN for Healthcare System

Abstract

The quick advancement of healthcare systems necessitates robust and efficient network security keys to defend sensitive patient records and guarantee uninterrupted service delivery. The current IDS has many challenges, such as a high false positive rate, poor accuracy of detection, slow response to threats, and inability to scale well. This paper proposes an efficient and real-time intrusion detection system (IDS) using advanced machine learning techniques within a software-defined networking (SDN) framework specifically tailored for healthcare systems. The proposed architecture implements a Machine Learning (ML) model that combines the SVM and KNN to better identify malicious activities. Full sets of detection and mitigation capabilities are implemented to address different types of traffic in the network with the least interference. Through the different evaluation measures, the efficiency of the proposed model is assured. Network performance is determined by success rate queries, packet losses in each domain path, and the CPU being used by the system. Responsiveness is measured through delay metrics grounded on end-to-end delay, hop-to-hop packet delay, latency rate, and propagation delay. Moreover, model accuracy fidelity is reviewed via precision assessment, alpha (α) affecting the accuracy of the model, and confusion matrix with different techniques with the proposed hybrid SVM-KNN model. Last of all, a comparison of the security of the models in question strengthens the argument in favor of the proposed model. More specifically, flow and network topology diagrams are included to show how integration may be accomplished in linkage or merger with existing healthcare networks. The results also present a 30% overall advancement in detection and mitigation by presenting the hybrid SVM-KNN model to overcome other traditional models. This proposed model shows significant improvements not less than 20-30% improvement in CPU use, 30-50% reduction in end-to-end delay, 30-40% less latency rate, 20-40% less propagation delay, and 20-30% better prediction accuracy, and outperforms Fuzzy, Logistic Regression and Decision Tree methods.

Keywords: Healthcare center, intrusion detection system (IDS), K-nearest neighbour's (KNN), machine learning (ML), software-defined networking (SDN), support, vector machine (SVM), Algorithms, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Security, Humans, Machine Learning.