Design of Multi-View Based Email Classification for IoT Systems via Semi-Supervised Learning

Li, Wenjuan; Meng, Weizhi; Tan, Zhiyuan; Xiang, Yang

Abstract

Suspicious emails are one big threat for Internet of Things (IoT) security, which aim to induce users to click and then redirect them to a phishing webpage. To protect IoT systems, email classification is an essential mechanism to classify spam and legitimate emails. In the literature, most email classification approaches adopt supervised learning algorithms that require a large number of labeled data for classifier training. However, data labeling is very time consuming and expensive, making only a very small set of data available in practice, which would greatly degrade the effectiveness of email classification. To mitigate this problem, in this work, we develop an email classification approach based on multi-view disagreement-based semi-supervised learning. The idea behind is that multi-view method can offer richer information for classification, which is often ignored by literature. The use of semi-supervised learning can help leverage both labeled and unlabeled data. In the evaluation, we investigate the performance of our proposed approach with datasets and in real network environments. Experimental results demonstrate that multi-view can achieve better classification performance than single view, and that our approach can achieve better performance as compared to the existing similar algorithms.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 15, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 15, 2019
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 15, 2018
• Journal: Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• Print ISSN: 1084-8045
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 128
• Pages: 56-63
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2018.12.002
• Keywords: Email Classification; Semi-Supervised Learning; Multi-View Data; Disagreement-based Learning; IoT Security
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1408668
• Contract Date: Dec 2, 2018