Table 1.

List of abbreviations

Acronym	Meaning	Acronym	Meaning
AE	Auto Encoder	MLP	Multilayer Perceptron
ANN	Artificial Neural Network	MSDA	Marginalized Stacked De-noising Auto-encoder
BOW	Bag of Word	MSE	Mean Squared Error
CH	Cluster Head	NB	Naïve Bayes
CIC	Canadian Institute of Cyber security	NID	Network Intrusion Detection
CL	Convolutional Layer	NIDS	Network Intrusion Detection System
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network	NN	Neural Network
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service	NS2	Network Simulator 2
DL	Deep Learning	OBS	Optical Burst Switching
DNN	Deep Neural Network	PCA	Principal Component Analysis
DoS	Denial of Service	PCC	Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient
DT	Decision Tree	PDR	Packet Delivery Ratio
FC	Fully Connected	PL	Pooling Layer
FCNN	Fully Connected Neural Network	RBF	Radial Basis Function
FFBP	Feed-Forward Back-Propagation	RE	Reconstruction Error
FNR	False Negative Rate	ReLu	Rectified Linear Unit
FPR	False Positive Rate	ResNet	Residual Network
GD	Gradient Descent	RF	Random Forest
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit	RMS	Root Mean Square
GRU	Gated Recurrent Unit	RNN	Recurrent Neural Network
GT	Game Theory	RQ	Research Question
IDS	Intrusion Detection System	SCC	Sparse Categorical Cross-entropy
IoT	Internet of Things	SDN	Software Defined Network
IP	Internet Protocol	SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent
KNN	k-Nearest Neighbours	SLR	Systematic Literature Review
LR	Logistic Regression	SML	Shallow Machine Learning
LSTM	Long short-term memory	SVM	Support Vector Machine
LUCID	Lightweight Usable CNN in DDoS Detection	TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
MANETs	Mobile Ad-hoc Networks	TL	Transfer Learning
MCC	Mission Control Center	TNR	True Negative Rate
MKL	Multiple Kernel Learning	TPR	True Positive Rate
MKLDR	Multiple Kernel Learning for Dimensionality Reduction	UDP	User Datagram Protocol
ML	Machine Learning	WSN	Wireless Sensor Network