NovelADS: A Novel Anomaly Detection System for Intra-Vehicular Networks

Modern vehicular electronics is a complex system of multiple Electronic Control Units (ECUs) communicating to provide efficient vehicle functioning. These ECUs communicate using the well-known Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol. The increasing amount of research in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) domain has demonstrated that this protocol is vulnerable to various types of security attacks, compromising the safety of passengers and pedestrians on the roads. Hence, there is a need to develop novel anomaly detection systems to address this problem. This work presents a novel deep learning-based Intrusion Detection System incorporating thresholding and error reconstruction approaches. We train and explore multiple neural network architectures and compare their performance. The proposed anomaly detection system is tested on four kinds of attacks - Denial of Service (DoS), Fuzzy, RPM Spoofing and Gear Spoofing using evaluation metrics such as Precision, Recall and F1-Score. We also present reconstruction-error distribution plots to give a qualitative intuition about the proposed system’s ability to distinguish between genuine and anomalous sequences.