A lightweight approach for intrusion detection in WSNs based on DCGAN

Ensuring strong security procedures is crucial in the rapidly advancing realm of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in order to protect sensitive data and preserve network integrity. The resource limitations and unpredictable environments that characterize WSNs frequently provide challenges for traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS). To overcome these issues, this research introduces a unique lightweight intrusion detection system that utilizes Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN). The proposed system employs wireless sensor network blackhole flooding selective forwarding (WSN-BFSF) dataset for training and evaluation. The suggested approach improves the IDS’s detection capabilities in addition to reducing computing overhead. The findings show that the lightweight DCGAN-based IDS provides an improved defense against new security threats, making it a good fit for real-time deployment in WSNs. Here, the performance metrics like receiver operating characteristic (ROC) is evaluated to check the efficiency of the model. The proposed model is assessed with the existing studies based on metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall and f1-score. The results show that the proposed approach attains the highest accuracy (94%) thus outperforming the existing methods and studies.