Skip to main content
. 2021 Oct 25;21(21):7070. doi: 10.3390/s21217070

Table 3.

ML and DL algorithms evaluated in the reviewed papers.

Algorithm Papers That Applied It No. of Articles Problem Domains Performance (Highest Accuracy)
SVM [10,28,34,42,48,51,54,60,71,87,91,99,102,104,124,127,128,130,131,132,135,142,144,149,151] 26 Insider Threat, DDoS, Malware, Botnet, Malicious Traffic, IDS, Phishing 93.95% (IDS)
DT [32,43,48,51,60,71,99,104,128,132,136,139,151] 13 Insider Threat, DDoS, Phishing, Malware, Botnet, Malicious Traffic, IDS 100% (Malicious Traffic)
RF [28,30,32,38,43,51,60,64,71,81,90,94,98,99,104,108,111,
124,125,126,127,128,135,136,148,149,151]
27 DDoS, Phishing, Malware, Botnet, IoT Network, Malicious Traffic, DNS Level Attack, IDS 100% (Malicious Traffic, DDoS)
NB [38,42,48,51,60,71,94,99,104,111,124,125,127,128,130,
132,136,143,145]
19 DDoS, Malware, Botnet, Malicious Traffic, DNS Level Attack, IDS, Phishing 90% (Malicious Traffic)
KNN [71,99,104,111,127,128] 6 Botnet, Malicious Traffic, DNS Level Attack, IDS 100% (Malicious Traffic)
MLP [18,34,38,40,48,51,73,104,125,151] 11 DDoS, Malware, Botnet, Malicious Traffic, IDS, Phishing 99.60% (Malware)
ELM [75,135] 2 IDS 99.5% (IDS)
LR [32,90,98,111,124,126,128,151] 8 DDoS, Malware, Malicious Traffic, DNS Level Attack, IDS 99.92% (Malware)
J.48 [38,125,126,132,133,136] 6 DDoS, IDS 99.66% (IDS)
ANN [44,58,120,123,128,133] 6 Phishing, Zero-Day, IDS 99.6% (Zero-Day)
RNN [10,16,21,24,41,42,82,106,117,146] 10 Insider Threat, DDoS, Malicious Traffic, IDS 100% (Insider Threat)
CNN [23,24,41,62,74,76,91,117,146,149] 10 Insider Threat, DDoS, Malware, IoT Network, Malicious Traffic, IDS 99% (DDoS)
DNN [10,20,78,84] 4 Insider Threat, DDoS, IoT Network, Malicious Traffic 99.99% (IoT Network)
LSTM [20,24,26,54,73,84,110] 7 DDoS, Botnet, IoT Network, Malicious Traffic, Phishing 99% (DDoS)
CNN-LSTM [12,24] 2 Insider Threat, DDoS 99.48% (DDoS)
AE [21,115,116] 3 DDoS, IDS 99% (DDoS)