FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications
Recently, there has been considerable growth in the internet of things (IoT)-based healthcare applications; however, they suffer from a lack of intrusion detection systems (IDS). Leveraging recent technologies, such as machine learning (ML), edge computing, and blockchain, can provide suitable and s...
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| author | Eman Ashraf Nihal F. F. Areed Hanaa Salem Ehab H. Abdelhay Ahmed Farouk |
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| description | Recently, there has been considerable growth in the internet of things (IoT)-based healthcare applications; however, they suffer from a lack of intrusion detection systems (IDS). Leveraging recent technologies, such as machine learning (ML), edge computing, and blockchain, can provide suitable and strong security solutions for preserving the privacy of medical data. In this paper, FIDChain IDS is proposed using lightweight artificial neural networks (ANN) in a federated learning (FL) way to ensure healthcare data privacy preservation with the advances of blockchain technology that provides a distributed ledger for aggregating the local weights and then broadcasting the updated global weights after averaging, which prevents poisoning attacks and provides full transparency and immutability over the distributed system with negligible overhead. Applying the detection model at the edge protects the cloud if an attack happens, as it blocks the data from its gateway with smaller detection time and lesser computing and processing capacity as FL deals with smaller sets of data. The ANN and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) models were evaluated using the BoT-IoT dataset. The results show that ANN models have higher accuracy and better performance with the heterogeneity of data in IoT devices, such as intensive care unit (ICU) in healthcare systems. Testing the FIDChain with different datasets (CSE-CIC-IDS2018, Bot Net IoT, and KDD Cup 99) reveals that the BoT-IoT dataset has the most stable and accurate results for testing IoT applications, such as those used in healthcare systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf56f048288147188362fe95ad6959ee2023-11-23T16:53:04ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322022-06-01106111010.3390/healthcare10061110FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare ApplicationsEman Ashraf0Nihal F. F. Areed1Hanaa Salem2Ehab H. Abdelhay3Ahmed Farouk4Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa 35712, EgyptDepartment of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, EgyptDepartment of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa 35712, EgyptDepartment of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, EgyptDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, South Valley University, Hurghada 84511, EgyptRecently, there has been considerable growth in the internet of things (IoT)-based healthcare applications; however, they suffer from a lack of intrusion detection systems (IDS). Leveraging recent technologies, such as machine learning (ML), edge computing, and blockchain, can provide suitable and strong security solutions for preserving the privacy of medical data. In this paper, FIDChain IDS is proposed using lightweight artificial neural networks (ANN) in a federated learning (FL) way to ensure healthcare data privacy preservation with the advances of blockchain technology that provides a distributed ledger for aggregating the local weights and then broadcasting the updated global weights after averaging, which prevents poisoning attacks and provides full transparency and immutability over the distributed system with negligible overhead. Applying the detection model at the edge protects the cloud if an attack happens, as it blocks the data from its gateway with smaller detection time and lesser computing and processing capacity as FL deals with smaller sets of data. The ANN and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) models were evaluated using the BoT-IoT dataset. The results show that ANN models have higher accuracy and better performance with the heterogeneity of data in IoT devices, such as intensive care unit (ICU) in healthcare systems. Testing the FIDChain with different datasets (CSE-CIC-IDS2018, Bot Net IoT, and KDD Cup 99) reveals that the BoT-IoT dataset has the most stable and accurate results for testing IoT applications, such as those used in healthcare systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/6/1110IoTintrusion detectionhealthcare securityfederated learningblockchainmachine learning |
| spellingShingle | Eman Ashraf Nihal F. F. Areed Hanaa Salem Ehab H. Abdelhay Ahmed Farouk FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications Healthcare IoT intrusion detection healthcare security federated learning blockchain machine learning |
| title | FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications |
| title_full | FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications |
| title_fullStr | FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications |
| title_short | FIDChain: Federated Intrusion Detection System for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare Applications |
| title_sort | fidchain federated intrusion detection system for blockchain enabled iot healthcare applications |
| topic | IoT intrusion detection healthcare security federated learning blockchain machine learning |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/6/1110 |
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