GANSec: Enhancing Supervised Wireless Anomaly Detection Robustness Through Tailored Conditional GAN AugmentationShow others and affiliations
2026 (English)In: Computer Security – ESORICS 2025: 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Toulouse, France, September 22–24, 2025, Proceedings, Part I / [ed] Vincent Nicomette; Abdelmalek Benzekri; Nora Boulahia-Cuppens; Jaideep Vaidya, Springer, 2026, Vol. 16053, p. 430-449Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Data augmentation techniques show potential in various domains, yet their application to enhance robustness in wireless anomaly detection remains underexplored. Wireless datasets often suffer from anomaly scarcity and class imbalance, hindering the training of reliable detection models. This work introduces GANSec, a novel conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) framework specifically designed to augment wireless time-series data. We investigate different neural network architectures (MLP, LSTM, CNN) and two conditional training objectives (Embedded Conditional, Classification Oriented) within GANSec, evaluating the framework using real-world 5G measurements for jamming anomaly detection. For evaluation, we train the downstream anomaly detector exclusively on GANSec-generated data and test its performance in a cross-scenario setting. Our evaluation demonstrates that models trained this way significantly outperform those trained on original or baseline augmentation data when tested under unseen network conditions. Specifically, our approach achieved up to 92.13% accuracy on the unseen dataset (i.e., data collected from a different distribution reflecting network conditions distinct from the training set), compared to 78% for models trained on raw data and 83.33% for the best-performing baseline, exhibiting substantially enhanced robustness and generalization.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2026. Vol. 16053, p. 430-449
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 16053
Keywords [en]
Wireless Security, Anomaly Detection, Data Augmentation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Cross-Scenario Generalization
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-127066DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07884-1_22ISI: 001656842900022ISBN: 9783032078834 (print)ISBN: 9783032078841 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-127066DiVA, id: diva2:2035712
Conference
30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025), Toulouse, France, September 22-24, 2025
2026-02-052026-02-052026-02-05Bibliographically approved