International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) Vol.14, No.

5, September 2022

WEIGHTED COEFFICIENT FIREFLY OPTIMIZATION

ALGORITHM AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR
TRUST MODEL AND LINK RELIABILITY
Shalini Sharma and Syed Zeeshan Hussain

Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia University New Delhi, India

ABSTRACT
Cloud computing is widely used by organizations and individuals due to its flexibility and reliability. The
trust model is important for cloud computing to detect malicious users and protect user privacy. The
existing research faces the issues of local optima trap and overfitting problems when a training user node
is idle for more time. This research proposed Weighted Coefficient Firefly Optimization Algorithm (WC-
FOA) with Support Vector Machine (SVM) for the trust model calculation and identifying paths with better
Quality of Services (QoS). The weighted coefficient is added to the FOA model to balance the exploration
and exploitation in the search of identifying optimal path based on reliability score. The WC-FOA method
measures the link reliability in the model and SVM detects the malicious users in the model. The WC-FOA
model selects the optimal path for transmission in terms of trust and efficient QoS parameters. The entropy
measure and link reliability are provided as input to the SVM model for the detection of attacks in the
network. The WCFOA-SVM model has 96% malicious user detection, whereas the Random Forest
Hierarchical Ant Colony Optimization (RF-HEACO) has 92 % accuracy.

KEYWORDS
Cloud computing, Entropy Measure, Support Vector Machine, Trust model, Weighted Coefficient Firefly
Optimization Algorithm.

1. INTRODUCTION
Trust Management is considered as a new technique to solve network security problems and
become a hot research topic in recent years. The trust management techniques have
characteristics of multi-dimensional evaluation, flexible application, and deployment, real-time
resistance to internal attacks and dynamic [1]. Cloud’sheterogeneitybehaviour is used by
malicious users to create trust problems and affect other devices' reliability and service. The trust
model is widely required in network security to protect cloud smart services. The Trust
management technique identifies untrusted behavior and separates untrusted objects. The existing
techniques still have many limitations like continuously changing its trust behaviors and
ineffectiveness against a large amount of data [2]. The huge quantity of connected users in the
cloud increases the chance of malicious surface on the Internet. The focus of this paper is on the
challenges and issues related to trust and security in the context of consumer cloud applications
[3]. Traditional security techniques can defend against external threats and lower efficiency in
identifying internal attacks due to the malicious inclusion of nodes into the network [4]. The
perimeter-based security architecture is applied to solve this problem that divides networks into
external networks and internal networks with an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Intrusion
Detection System (IDS), and firewall as the border [5].

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A huge amount of users in the cloud environment results in higher traffic and flow of data to be
slow inside the cloud environment. The higher traffic creates a delay in the network and creates
multiple hops for a data to be transferred from one user to another. If in case a malicious user is
on the route of data transmission, there is a higher chance of rerouting the data in a misguided
path or the loss of data can happen. To avoid these scenario, it is essential for a network to have a
reliable path with neighbors for data transmission and effective identification malicious nodes in
that path. Malicious node identification in modern network infrastructure are considered severe
threats to network security. Traditional network security finds it difficult to distinguish between
the malicious node and large legitimate users accessing a targeted network or a resource [6]. Few
studies involve in collect and analyzingmalicious node characteristics for these attacks. This
research mainly focuses on malicious node detection and to mitigate the attack, which is difficult
for legitimate users’ traffic patterns and various network services [7, 8]. Networks' crucial issues
are reliable data exchange and energy consumption problems. Clouds are a vulnerable target for
many security attacks due to the limited resources of sensor nodes. Trust based technique of
energy awareness is a powerful tool for the classification of nodes' behavior and provides security
solutions in cloud [9, 10].The objectives and contribution of this research are described as
follows:

1. SVM is used to classify the malicious users based on the residual energy, bandwidth,
entropy, Packet Loss Ratio (PLR) and End to End Delay (EED). After classifying the
malicious users, the information about these malicious users are broadcasted to achieve
the reliable transmission.
2. The conventional FOA is transformed into WC-FOA by adding the weighted coefficient
that helps to enhance the exploration and exploitation capabilities during the secure route
discovery. Therefore, the combination SVM based malicious node discovery and WC-
FOA based secure routing are used to enhance the link reliability.

The paper is organized as follows: The trust model literature review is given in Section 2, and the
WC-FOA-SVM model explanation is given in Section 3. The results of the WC-FOA-SVM
model are given in Section 4, and the conclusion of the research paper is given in Section 5.

2. LITERATURE REVIEW
The trust model for the network is important to find the malicious nodes in the network and
increases the privacy of the network. Some recent techniques in the trust model and link
reliability technique were reviewed in this section.

Guesmi, et al. [11] applied a supervised detection technique for cloud environments using Fast
Entropy based on unfair ratings and cloud users’ feedback, named Feedback Fast Entropy-based
Detection Strategy (FFED). The user’s rating was monitored by the provided detection system
and fast entropy algorithm was used to detect unfair rating attacks to permit the scale effectively.
The unfair rating attacks are considered as events that cause changes in rating computation and
help to identify different attacks. These attacks are mitigated and feedback was used to detect
changes. The FFED method has lower adaptability and this model has lower efficiency in
detecting new attacks.

AbdelAzim, et al. [12] developed a hybrid model that was a combination of entropy and
KullbackLeibler (KL)-divergence to consider node trust in routing problems for detecting attacks.
The hybrid method is developed to detect denial of service attacks and routing information was
considered in the nodes for quick identification and exclusion from the nodes. The developed
method allows nodes that have been suspected of participating in an attack if they cease their
malicious behavior. The developed method can detect the second attack while another one is
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ongoing. The developed method of detecting denial of service attacks has higher performance
than non-hybrid techniques. This binary class classification technique and lower efficiency in
attack classification.

Wu, et al. [13] applied Trustworthiness Assessment with Entropy (TAE) for topological
characteristics analysis in IoT networks. The TAE’s trustworthiness of qualitative and
quantitative were carried out using von Neumann entropy which used to increase the feasibility
and robustness of the model. The multi-layer complex network was used to map the model in
cloud-fog-edge computing.

Kou, et al. [14] proposed a Simhash-based link prediction technique to improve privacy-
preserving. The target user indices were used to determine “probably similar” friends based on
Simhash to develop less sensitive users. The developed method effectively protects users’
information and trust-distrust values are calculated for each user related to the target user. The
Social Balance technique was applied to develop a link of possibility between candidate and
target user using trust-distrust values. The real-world Epinions dataset was applied to test the
developed model’s performance. The developed model has higher performance in terms of
overcoming sparsity problems than the existing technique. The Simhash technique only
considered user rating data and is highly based on similarity measures.

Sankaran, et al. [15] applied Energy Based Random Repeat Trust Computation (EB-RRTC) for
trust nodes encounter with the destination node. The Reliable Fuzzy and Heuristic Concurrent
Ant Colony Optimization (RF-HEACO) were applied to improve Quality of Service (QoS). The
ACO model was applied to identify candidate deposit routes among a pair of source and
destination. The Reliable fitness function, heuristic factors, and QoS metrics are considered for
identifying the candidate routes. Each path is measured using the reliability technique and Fuzzy
logic with packet loss rate, residual energy and metric link stability for high-reliability path
selection. The RF-HEACO QoS routing protocol reduces energy consumption and increases the
packet delivery ratio. The ACO model has limitations of local optima trap and overfitting
problems in optimization.

Alshammariet al. [16] developed a Trust Model System (TMS) to ensure the security over the
cloud storage system. In TMS, the value of interaction trust was computed for malicious attackers
to improve the security. The developed TMS was provided the security against the reputation
attacks. Further, the developed TMS was provided the enough security, even when the cloud
services were processed in dynamic topology. This TMS was failed to consider the reliability of
link while performing the data transmission.

Hassan et al. [17] presented the enhanced QoS-based model to estimate the authorization of the
cloud provider. The Accumulative/Computed Trust Value (ATV)was computed for each cloud
provider for evaluating their own authentication level. Here, the user feedback ratings according
to the covariance mathematical approach was used to compute the cloud resource’s
trustworthiness. Next, the resource power was computed for calculating the trustworthiness of a
cloud resource. The elimination of fake users was used to enhance the transaction success rate in
cloud environment. If the number of connections were increased, it caused failure in certainjobs
in cloud.

Qureshi et al. [18] developed the Software-Defined Network (SDN) based Anomaly Detection
System (ADS) for edge computing-based systems in IoT networks. The behavior of device for
SDN and edge computing networks were discovered by ADS. An edge device’s trust for ensuring
the data forwarding was accomplished by developing a trusted authority for edge computing

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approach. The data delivery of SDN-ADS was less, when the environment has more number of
malicious switches.

The related work along with its advantages and limitations is provided in the Table 1.

Table 1. Related work

Author Approach Advantages Limitations

Guesmiet al. Supervised detection An effective detection of The developed FEED
[11] technique and unfair rating attacks were has less adaptability
Feedback Fast done by monitoring the while detecting the
Entropy-based user’s rating along with unknown attacks.
Detection Strategy FFED.
(FFED)
AbdelAzimet Hybrid entropy and The Hybrid entropy and This Hybrid entropy
al. [12] KL-divergence KL-divergence method was and KL-divergence
model detected the second attack was offered only a
while the first one is binary classification.
ongoing in network.
Wuet al. [13] TAE The TAE method The TAE was
trustworthiness was mapped using multi-
performed using von layer complex
Neumann entropy that used network at cloud-
to enhance the feasibility. fog-edge computing.
Kouet al. [14] Simhash-based link The Simhash based The Simhash
prediction technique discovery has enhanced technique was only
performance in terms of considered rating
overcoming sparsity issues data of user and it
than the existing method. was highly depends
on the similarity
measures.
Sankaran, et EB-RRTC and RF- The energy consumption The ACO has
al. [15] HEACO was reduced and packet limitations of local
delivery ratio was increased optima trap and
by using RF-HEACO QoS overfitting issues in
routing protocol. optimization.
Alshammari et TMS The TMS was provided the This TMS was failed
al. [16] enough security, even when to consider the
the cloud services were reliability of link
processed in dynamic while performing the
topology data transmission.
Hassan et al. Enhanced QoS- The elimination of fake If the number of
[17] based model users using ATV was used connections were
to enhance the transaction increased, it caused
success rate. failure in certain jobs
in cloud.
Qureshi et al. SDN-ADS Edge device’s trust for The data delivery of
[18] providing the data SDN-ADS was less,
forwarding was when the
accomplished by developing environment has
a trusted authority for edge huge number of
computing approach. malicious switches.
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The limitations found from the existing research are mentioned as follows: The cloud computing
environment possess less adaptability to the unknown attacks from inside malicious users,
restricted detection of behaviour between the malicious user and legitimate user is also a
challenging issue on cloud and providing security functionalities in addition requires inadequate
cost parameters and suffers from local optima trap, overfitting and less data delivery. Hence, an
effective secure routing under malicious users is developed using SVM and WC-FOA for
achieving the reliable data broadcasting in cloud environment.

3. PROPOSED METHOD
In this research, the SVM and WC-FOA are used for achieving secure reliable communication
over the cloud environment. Specifically, the SVM is used to find the malicious attackers exist in
cloud followed by the WC-FOA used to find the optimal path for transmission. The distinct cost
metrics used in the WCFOA-SVM are residual energy, bandwidth and entropy. The developed
WCFOA-SVM is used to overcome the issues of local optima trap and overfitting. The overview
of the WCFOA-SVM model is given in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Block diagram of WCFOA-SVM method

The important process of the WCFOA-SVM method is mentioned as follows:

 The cloud environment is initialized with enough resources i.e., energy and bandwidth
during system model initialization. Accordingly, the resources are allocated for each user
of cloud.
 For detecting the malicious attackers exist in the cloud, the SVM is trained with unique
cost metric. Here, the cost is generated based on residual energy, bandwidth, entropy,
PLR and EED.
 Next, the WC-FOA is used to discover the route based on residual energy, bandwidth and
entropy. After discovering the route, the data is transmitted from one user to another user
in the cloud environment.

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The detailed explanation about SVM based malicious user discovery and WC-FOA based route
discovery are given as follows:

3.1. Malicious user discovery using SVM

The trustworthy neighboruser discovery is supported among end to end user by using the SVM.
After identifying the malicious user, the local routing table of each user is updated in each
simulation time. The cost generation and SVM classification is detailed below:

3.1.1. Cost generation

The cost metric used to discover the malicious attacks are residual energy  RE  , bandwidth
 BW  , entropy, PLR and EED. The cost metric used during the attack userdiscovery is expressed
in equation (1).

Cost  RE  BW  Fast entropy  PLR  EED (1)

The user exist in the cloud environment requires enough energy to transmit the information.
Therefore, the user with huge amount of residual energy is preferred in cloud environment.
Equation (2) shows the computation of residual energy.The available bandwidth information of
the user expressed in equation (3) is used to plan their own or distributed nodes. This used to take
the decision about the destination user and data speed. Feedback count is used in supervising the
evolution of existing practices used in this step. A threshold k of trust manager is set for the sum
of existing feedback counts related to Cloud Service Provider (CSP). During a fixed time period
t if this sum is higher than threshold k , the attack detection algorithm is executed by the system
based on fast entropy which is expressed in equation (4). The PLR expressed in equation (5) is
used to define the loss ratio where the malicious users creates the huge amount of loss during the
data transmission. Hence, this used to identify the malicious users in the cloud. Further, the EED
shows the amount of time taken to transmit the data to the desired user.

RE  Availableenergy  Consumed energy (2)

BW   tidle / t   Channel capacity (3)
1 if  n counter (i)  
 i 1
Fast entropy   (4)
0 f  i 1 counter (i)  
n

Number of lost packets

PLR  (5)
Total number of transmitted packets

Where, tidle is idle time period; t is overall time period; For a fixed time period t , the number
of connections ( n) attained by CSP is taken as feedbacks count i that is counter (i) .The
derived cost function is used as the input for SVM to detect the malicious attackers.

3.1.2. Support Vector Machine for attack detection

Vapnik (1995) proposed a Support Vector Machine for solving classification and regression
problems [19 – 20]. The SVM is a supervised learning technique for the classification training
process in various fields. SVM model can apply for binary and multi-class classification, also
suitable for linear and non-linear data classification tasks. SVM model creates a hyper-plane for

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partitioning the data in high-dimensional space and selects the best hyper-plane based on its
capacity to partition the data. The non-linear classifier's margins are estimated using various
kernel functions and commonly applied kernel functions are linear, polynomial, radial basis, and
sigmoid. The researchers have successfully applied SVM for many applications due to its
efficiency in classification, SVM model has been widely used in image processing and pattern
recognition models.

The SVM model used in this study is based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) with the proposed
model. Two numeric vectors are used in Squared Euclidean distance of kernel function is applied
and for optimal partition of input data, input data is mapped to high-dimensional space. The
kernel RBF model is effective to partition a set of shared complex boundaries. This study uses the
multi-class classification problem for attack classification. A two-class problem is divided from a
multi-class problem. This study uses Radial Basis Function (RBF), as given in equation (6).

K ( x, y)  e
2
x y
,  0 (6)

For training samples ( xi , yi ), i  1, 2,..n , where maximum number of samples is given as

i, yi 1, 1 and xi Rn where the positive class is 1 and the negative class is -1, and the subspace
of labels corresponding to xi is represented as Rn . The solution to the following problem is
provided when using the SVM model, which shown in equation (7).

wT w  C  i 1
min 1 n
w,b , 2
(7)

Subject to yi ( wTw ( xi )  b)  1  i

Where, b is the bias term of the SVM. The training vector xi transforms  to higher dimensional
space. A hyper-plane of SVM has a maximum margin to partition various classes of data.

The SVM model has the benefits of having minimal parameter requirement and the disadvantage
is that the requirements of a Gaussian function in the training set for each instance cause
performance degradation and increases training time on a large dataset in classification case. Soft
margin is used if the model fails to find a hyper-plane. The positive slack variables in soft margin
use i , i  1, 2,..N in the constraints, as in equations (8 - 10).

 w.xi  b   1  i for yi  1 (8)

( w.xi  b)  1  i for yi  1 (9)
 0 (10)

Where  i must exceed unity if an error occurs. Then, an upper bound is  i  i for training error.
The Lagrange is given in equation (11).

1 2
w  C i 1i  i i  yi ( xi .w  b)  1  i   i ii
n
Lp  (11)
2

Where Lagrange multipliers are denoted as i and this is used to provide  i positive
value.Therefore, the SVM provides the information about the malicious attackers and this
information is broadcasted over the network. Accordingly, the ID of malicious attackers is

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removed from the neighbouring user routing table. Further, the route from one user to another
user is generated by using the WC-FOA.

3.2. Link Reliability using Weighted Coefficient Firefly Optimization Algorithm (WC-
FOA)

The WC-FOA is developed for discovering the route between one user to another user according
to the fitness values of residual energy, bandwidth, and EED. Xin-She developed the
optimization technique of the Firefly algorithm at the University of Cambridge[21–23]. The
conventional FOA is changed into WC-FOA by considering the weighted coefficient during the
position update which used to improve the position update according to the best solution.Firefly
characteristics related to its activities of locomotion are mimicked in this firefly algorithm.
Firefly algorithm is considered to be an effective technique to find a solution to various
engineering problems due to its high exploration capacity, flashlight capability, and brightness.
The bionics principle is used by the firefly algorithm and the best optimal value is selected based
on the most effective firefly algorithm for non-linear and complex design. The light capability of
flash is used by each firefly based on the arbitrary solution to attract the adjacent firefly.

3.2.1. Purpose of flashing light

1. Commonly, every firefly is unisexual and attracts a partner for mating.

2. The attraction capability is based on its brightness and light capability is used by fireflies
to attract prey for survival.
3. Light flashing is used by fireflies to protect against their other enemies.

3.2.2. Light Intensity variation and Attraction Capability

The initialization considered in the WC-FOA is the possible routes from the transmitter user to
the destination user. These possible routes are given as input to the WC-FOA followed by the
iterative process of position update takes place to find the optimal route. In the firefly algorithm,
the attraction capability and variation of light intensity play a significant role. Light intensity is
used to determine the fitness value of the algorithm. The firefly algorithm can handle highly non-
linear and several multi-optimization problems. The firefly with low or high intensity attracts
neighbouring fireflies with low or high intensity. Consider DXY is the distance between two
fireflies such as X and Y . The light intensity reduces concerning distance from the source and
media absorb light. Equation (12) provides the intensity of the light as per the law of square
inverse.

Is
I ( D)  2
(12)
DXY

The source intensity is denoted as I S . The light intensity expression LI varies related to distance
DXY , as in equation (13).

LI  I0e  DXY (13)

The fixed light of absorption coefficient is denoted as  . The initial light intensity is denoted as
I0 .

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Strong attractive capacity is present in each firefly and this has strong firefly behavior attraction
over neighboring firefly groups. Two firefly distances namely X and Y are used to vary the
attractive capability. Fireflies' attractive capability is directly proportional to the light intensity of
neighboring fireflies. The attractive function expression is given in equation (14).

   0 e  D
2
XY
(14)

The attractive capability at distance DXY  0 is denoted as  0 in equation (15). The calculation of
characteristic length for a fixed light is given in equation (15).

1
   1, M   (15)
M

Two different fireflies X and Y Cartesian distances are represented as PX and PY , respectively.
The two fireflies' Cartesian distance formula is given in equation (16).The Cartesian distance
among two points in Euclidean space is the length of a line segment among the two points.



DX ,Y  PX  PY  R 1
( PXR  PYR )2 (16)

Attraction movement from one fly to another fly is X and Y as in equation (17). The firefly
movement determination related to attraction capability is given in equation (17).

PXR 1  PXR   0 e   DXY ( PY  PX )  J

2
(17)

Where an attractive term is denoted as  0 e   D ( PY  PX ) and random variable is in term J in

2
XY

range of [0, 1].

To improve Firefly algorithm performance, the weight coefficient (w) is applied and the change
firefly random follows the object into the best individual. The modified position update is
described using state i as shown in equation (18).

xi ,iter 1  w(t )  xi ,iter  Di  f i ,iter   gbest  xi ,iter  (18)

Where, Di is the distance from the firefly to the light source;the current iteration of the optimal
solution is denoted as gbest and adaptively changes w(t ) related to equation (19).

2
 itermax 
w(t )  wmax  exp(t 2 / (2    )) (19)
 40 

Where w maximum initial value is denoted as wmax which is equal to 0.01. If w value is higher in
an early stage, it benefits exploration and if it was smaller in a later stage, it benefits
exploitation.Therefore, the developed WC-FOA used to discover the optimal secure route which
used to enhance the robustness against the malicious user. The elimination of malicious user
helps to improve the PDR of the cloud environment.

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4. RESULTS
The WCFOA-SVM technique is applied in cloud computing and evaluated various metrics such
as attack detection accuracy, energy consumption, Packet delivery ratio, and Throughput. The
simulation parameters of WCFOA-SVM are given in the following Table 2.

Table 2. Simulation parameters

Parameter Value
Number of users (Nodes) 50-500
Network area 1000m  1000m
Propagation model Propagation/TwoRayGround
Mac type Mac/802_11
Channel type Channel/WirelessChannel
Phy type Phy/WirelessPhy
Packet size 20 bits

The WCFOA-SVM method is compared with the existing technique to evaluate the efficiency of
the model.

Metrics: The metrics such as Accuracy, Packet Delivery Ratio and Throughput were measured
from the proposed model and mathematically expressed in equations (20-22).

TP  TN
Accuracy  100 (20)
TP  TN  FP  FN
 Number of packet receive
Packet Delivery Ratio  (21)
 Number of packet send
Dp  Ps
Throughput  (22)
total durationof simulation

Where Dp is the number of packets delivered, Ps is the size of a packet, TP is True Positive, TN
is True Negative, FP is False Positive, and FN is False Negative.

Parameter Settings: The number of iterations for the WCFOA method is set as 50 and the
population size is set as 50. The MATLAB tool is used to simulate and evaluate the WCFOA-
SVM model.

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Table 3. Attack detection accuracy of WCFOA-SVM

Number of RF-HEACO WCFOA-

Nodes FFED [11] TAE [13] Simhash [14] [15] SVM
0 0 0 0 0 0
50 70 70 85 85 90
100 71 71 85 86 90
150 73 71 87 86 90
200 75 72 88 87 91
250 75 73 88 87 93
300 75 77 88 87 94
350 75 80 88 88 96
400 76 81 88 90 96
450 78 81 90 91 96
500 79 83 90 92 96

Figure 1. Detection Accuracy of WCFOA-SVM for various nodes

The WCFOA-SVM technique is tested for various nodes in terms of detection accuracy, as in
Table 3and Figure 2. The WCFOA technique applies the weighted coefficient technique to
balance the exploration and exploitation. The WCFOA technique helps to find reliable links for
transmission and increases the attack detection performance. The WCFOA model finds the
optimal path for transmission and the SVM model can handle high dimensional data. The
WCFOA method has higher efficiency in attack detection than existing methods. The RF-
HEACO [15] method has a local optima trap and overfitting problem in attack detection. The
Simhash [14] focuses on similar based measures for attack classification in the model. The
WCFOA-SVM model has 96 % accuracy in attack detection and RF-HEACO method has 92 %
accuracy for 500 nodes.

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Table 4. Energy consumption of WCFOA-SVM

Number of RF-HEACO
Nodes FFED [11] TAE [13] Simhash [14] [15] WCFOA-SVM
0 0 0 0 0 0
50 60 51 40 36 21
100 60 56 40 37 21
150 60 57 41 37 22
200 61 57 42 39 23
250 61 57 43 39 23
300 65 58 43 41 24
350 66 59 43 42 25
400 67 61 44 43 25
450 69 65 53 44 27
500 69 65 55 45 27

The energy consumption of the WCFOA-SVM model is measured for various nodes and
compared with existing techniques, as given in Table 4and Figure 3. The weighted coefficient in
the Firefly algorithm helps to balance exploration and exploitation. This helps to reduce energy
consumption in exploration or exploitation. The WCFOA method also finds link reliability and
this helps to provide optimal transmission. The WCFOA-SVM method has less energy
consumption than existing methods. The WCFOA-SVM model has 27 J energy consumption and
the RF-HEACO method has 45 J energy consumption for 500 nodes.

Figure 2. WCFOA-SVM energy consumption for various nodes

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Table 5. Packet Delivery ratio of WCFOA-SVM

Number of TAE Simhash RF-HEACO WCFOA-

Nodes FFED [11] [13] [14] [15] SVM
0 0 0 0 0 0
50 80 74 79 85 91
100 71 76 83 87 96
150 71 76 79 89 94
200 70 78 75 90 92
250 80 70 76 80 95
300 77 74 85 85 93
350 80 78 77 80 95
400 72 72 82 81 94
450 79 72 75 82 94
500 73 74 85 83 96

Figure 3. WCFOA-SVM Packet delivery ratio for various nodes

The WCFOA-SVM model packet delivery ratio is measured and compared with existing
techniques in trust model, as in Table 5and Figure 4. The WCFOA-SVM model uses a weighted
coefficient to balance exploration and exploitation in the search process. Balancing the
exploration and exploitation helps to effectively detect the attack and reduce the packet loss. The
WCFOA-SVM model has a higher packet delivery ratio than existing methods in cloud
computing. The existing methods have a limitation of local optima trap and overfitting problems
in the model. The WCFOA-SVM model has 96 % packet delivery ratio and RF-HEACO method
has 83 % for 500 nodes.

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Table 6. Throughput of WCFOA-SVM

Number of Simhash RF-HEACO WCFOA-

Nodes FFED [11] TAE [13] [14] [15] SVM
0 0 0 0 0 0
50 1 1 5 7 14
100 2 1 7 10 15
150 3 1 7 11 17
200 3 4 7 11 19
250 4 6 7 11 20
300 4 7 9 12 22
350 5 8 9 13 27
400 6 8 11 15 29
450 8 10 14 15 35
500 8 11 15 17 35

Figure 4. WCFOA-SVM Throughput for various nodes

The WCFOA-SVM throughput is measured for various nodes and compared with existing
techniques, as in Table 6and Figure 5. The WCFOA-SVM model balances exploration and
exploitation using a weighted coefficient. The balancing of exploration and exploitation helps to
increase the transmission capacity of the model. The WCFOA-SVM model has higher throughput
than the existing technique. The RF-HEACO model has a limitation of local optima trap and
overfitting problem. The WCFOA-SVM model has 35 MBPS throughput and RF-HEACO model
has 17 MBPS throughput.

The SVM based malicious attack detection with unique cost metrics is used to overcome the issue
of overfitting. The incorporation of weighted coefficient in WC-FOA is used to enhance the
exploration and exploitation capabilities that used to overcome the issue of local optima trap. The
attacks classified by the SVM is avoided while discovering the route using WC-FOA that used to
enhance the packet delivery of the network.

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5. CONCLUSION
The existing researches on the trust model for the cloud have the limitations of local optima trap
and overfitting problem. The WCFOA-SVM model is proposed to increase the performance of
the trust model in attack detection and efficiency. The WCFOA model is applied for link
reliability measures and path selection. The SVM model is applied for attack detection using
entropy measure and link reliability. The RF-HEACO model has the limitation of local optima
trap and overfitting problem. The Simhash technique mainly focuses on similarity measures for
attack detection. The WCFOA method has higher efficiency than existing methods in terms of
attack detection, energy consumption, packet delivery ratio, and throughput. The WCFOA-SVM
model has 27 J energy consumption and the RF-HEACO model has 45 J energy consumption.The
developed WCFOA-SVM is identified only the malicious users, so further it is required to be
developed for identifying the network traffic-related attacks. The future work of this method
involves applying multi-class classification for attack classification using the deep learning
technique.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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AUTHORS
Shalini Sharma pursuing Ph.D. in computer Science from Jamia Millia Islamia University,
New Delhi, India. She acquired Master of Technology in Information Technology from
Guru Gobind Singh University, Delhi in 2011.She worked as Assistant Professor in Sharda
University during 2011- 2015.She has served IT organization Infogain India, IRIS
Software & Accenture 2015 onwards.

Syed Zeeshan Hussain acquired Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, and
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from IGNOU, New Delhi respectively. He is
currently working as Associate Professor in department of Computer Science Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi, India. His research interests include Computer Networks, Network
Security, Web Technology and Applications, Object-Oriented Computing, Scripting
Languages.

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