Feature Extraction Method Based on Sparse Autoencoder for Air Traffic Management System Security Situation Awareness

Abstract

In wide-area distributed scenarios, it is particularly important to carry out information security situational awareness for the air traffic management (ATM) system with integrated air-ground structure. The operation data of the communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) equipment of ATM system have the characteristics of multi-dimension, complexity, and strong correlation. In the process of situation awareness feature extraction, there are problems such as poor model accuracy, weak feature expression ability, and low classification performance. A feature association algorithm is designed to solve the above problems. Based on this algorithm, a deep-related sparse autoencoder (DRSAE) model based on improved sparse autoencoder is established. In DRSAE model, L1 regularization and Kullback–Leibler divergence (KLD) sparsity terms are used to penalize the parameters of the encoder network, and the quantity of hidden layers is increased to allow the model to optimize the global encoder network by iteratively training a single encoder. Moreover, the proposed DRSAE model and other feature extraction models such as principal component analysis (PCA), autoencoder (AE), and sparse autoencoder (SAE) are compared and evaluated by using the support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Compared with other feature extraction models, it is found that the proposed DRSAE model has good robustness in feature extraction of ATM system, and the obtained features have strong expression ability, which enhances the classification performance of the model and is convenient for situation awareness.

Deep Learning in Air Traffic Management (ATM): A Survey on Applications, Opportunities, and Open Challenges

“…Wu et al [135] design a feature association algorithm to solve the ATM systems security situation awareness via a Deep-Related Sparse Autoencoder (DRSAE) model. In safe and efficient operations, it is pivotal that security situational awareness information is provided to the air traffic management (ATM) system with an integrated air-ground structure.…”