Leveraging Semisupervised Hierarchical Stacking Temporal Convolutional Network for Anomaly Detection in IoT Communication

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) accumulates a large number of communication records, which are utilized for anomaly detection in IoT communication. However, only a small part of these records can be labeled, which increases the difficulty in anomaly detection. This article proposes a semisupervised hierarchical stacking temporal convolutional network (HS-TCN), which is the first semisupervised model for anomaly detection in IoT communication, and it can train unlabeled data based on a small number of labeled data. Furthermore, HS-TCN fully considers the features of streaming data in IoT communication and can weed out uncertain records. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that HS-TCN promotes the performance of anomaly detection and attains better efficiency.