scholarly journals Improving Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Detection using Entropy Method in Software Defined Network (SDN)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Maman Abdurohman ◽  
Dani Prasetiawan ◽  
Fazmah Arif Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
New Method ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Software Defined Network ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Ddos Detection ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

This research proposed a new method to enhance Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection attack on Software Defined Network (SDN) environment. This research utilized the OpenFlow controller of SDN for DDoS attack detection using modified method and regarding entropy value. The new method would check whether the traffic was a normal traffic or DDoS attack by measuring the randomness of the packets. This method consisted of two steps, detecting attack and checking the entropy. The result shows that the new method can reduce false positive when there is a temporary and sudden increase in normal traffic. The new method succeeds in not detecting this as a DDoS attack. Compared to previous methods, this proposed method can enhance DDoS attack detection on SDN environment.

scholarly journals Machine-learning and statistical methods for DDoS attack detection and defense system in software defined networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlin James Rukshan Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Ddos Detection ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a serious threat on today’s Internet. As the traffic across the Internet increases day by day, it is a challenge to distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic. This thesis proposes two different approaches to build an efficient DDoS attack detection system in the Software Defined Networking environment. SDN is the latest networking approach which implements centralized controller, which is programmable. The central control and the programming capability of the controller are used in this thesis to implement the detection and mitigation mechanisms. In this thesis, two designed approaches, statistical approach and machine-learning approach, are proposed for the DDoS detection. The statistical approach implements entropy computation and flow statistics analysis. It uses the mean and standard deviation of destination entropy, new flow arrival rate, packets per flow and flow duration to compute various thresholds. These thresholds are then used to distinguish normal and attack traffic. The machine learning approach uses Random Forest classifier to detect the DDoS attack. We fine-tune the Random Forest algorithm to make it more accurate in DDoS detection. In particular, we introduce the weighted voting instead of the standard majority voting to improve the accuracy. Our result shows that the proposed machine-learning approach outperforms the statistical approach. Furthermore, it also outperforms other machine-learning approach found in the literature.

Detecting DDoS Attacks on Multiple Network Hosts

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos ◽  
Panagiotis Karampelas ◽  
Reda Alhajj
Keyword(s):  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Timely Fashion ◽  
Multiple Network ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Low Traffic

The proliferation of low security internet of things devices has widened the range of weapons that malevolent users can utilize in order to attack legitimate services in new ways. In the recent years, apart from very large volumetric distributed denial of service attacks, low and slow attacks initiated from intelligent bot networks have been detected to target multiple hosts in a network in a timely fashion. However, even if the attacks seem to be “innocent” at the beginning, they generate huge traffic in the network without practically been detected by the traditional DDoS attack detection methods. In this chapter, an advanced pattern detection method is presented that is able to collect and classify in real time all the incoming traffic and detect a developing slow and low DDoS attack by monitoring the traffic in all the hosts of the network. The experimental analysis on a real dataset provides useful insights about the effectiveness of the method by identifying not only the main source of attack but also secondary sources that produce low traffic, targeting though multiple hosts.

scholarly journals Detecting High and Low Intensity Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Abigail Koay
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Traffic Classification ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

<p>High and low-intensity attacks are two common Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that disrupt Internet users and their daily operations. Detecting these attacks is important to ensure that communication, business operations, and education facilities can run smoothly. Many DDoS attack detection systems have been proposed in the past but still lack performance, scalability, and information sharing ability to detect both high and low-intensity DDoS attacks accurately and early. To combat these issues, this thesis studies the use of Software-Defined Networking technology, entropy-based features, and machine learning classifiers to develop three useful components, namely a good system architecture, a useful set of features, and an accurate and generalised traffic classification scheme. The findings from the experimental analysis and evaluation results of the three components provide important insights for researchers to improve the overall performance, scalability, and information sharing ability for building an accurate and early DDoS attack detection system.</p>

scholarly journals Comparative Study on TCP SYN Flood DDoS Attack Detection: A Machine Learning Algorithm Based Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 584-591
Author(s):  
S. Sumathi ◽  
R. Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithm ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
F Measure

A most common attack on the internet network is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which involves occupying computational resources and bandwidth to suppress services to potential clients. The attack scenario is to massively flood the packets. The attack is called a denial of service (DoS) if the attack originates from a single server, and a distributed denial of service (DDoS) if the attack originates from multiple servers. Control and mitigation of DDoS attacks have been a research goal for many scholars for over a decade, and they have achieved in delivering a few major DDoS detection and protection techniques. In the current state of internet use, how quickly and early a DDoS attack can be detected in broadcasting network transactions remains a key research goal. After the development of a machine learning algorithm, many potential methods of DDoS attack detection have been developed. The work presents the results of various experiments carried out using data mining and machine learning algorithms as well as a combination of these algorithms on the commonly available dataset named CAIDA for TCP SYN flood attack detection. Also, this work analysis the various performance metrics such as false positive rate, precision, recall, F-measure and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) using various machine learning algorithm. One-R(OR) with an ideal FPR value of 0.05 and recall value of 0.95,decision stump(DS) with an ideal precision value of o.93,PART with an excellent F-measure value of 0.91 are some of the performance metric values while performing TCP SYN flood attack detection.

scholarly journals Machine-learning and statistical methods for DDoS attack detection and defense system in software defined networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlin James Rukshan Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Ddos Detection ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a serious threat on today’s Internet. As the traffic across the Internet increases day by day, it is a challenge to distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic. This thesis proposes two different approaches to build an efficient DDoS attack detection system in the Software Defined Networking environment. SDN is the latest networking approach which implements centralized controller, which is programmable. The central control and the programming capability of the controller are used in this thesis to implement the detection and mitigation mechanisms. In this thesis, two designed approaches, statistical approach and machine-learning approach, are proposed for the DDoS detection. The statistical approach implements entropy computation and flow statistics analysis. It uses the mean and standard deviation of destination entropy, new flow arrival rate, packets per flow and flow duration to compute various thresholds. These thresholds are then used to distinguish normal and attack traffic. The machine learning approach uses Random Forest classifier to detect the DDoS attack. We fine-tune the Random Forest algorithm to make it more accurate in DDoS detection. In particular, we introduce the weighted voting instead of the standard majority voting to improve the accuracy. Our result shows that the proposed machine-learning approach outperforms the statistical approach. Furthermore, it also outperforms other machine-learning approach found in the literature.

Detecting DDoS Attacks on Multiple Network Hosts

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos ◽  
Panagiotis Karampelas ◽  
Reda Alhajj
Keyword(s):  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Timely Fashion ◽  
Multiple Network ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Low Traffic

The proliferation of low security internet of things devices has widened the range of weapons that malevolent users can utilize in order to attack legitimate services in new ways. In the recent years, apart from very large volumetric distributed denial of service attacks, low and slow attacks initiated from intelligent bot networks have been detected to target multiple hosts in a network in a timely fashion. However, even if the attacks seem to be “innocent” at the beginning, they generate huge traffic in the network without practically been detected by the traditional DDoS attack detection methods. In this chapter, an advanced pattern detection method is presented that is able to collect and classify in real time all the incoming traffic and detect a developing slow and low DDoS attack by monitoring the traffic in all the hosts of the network. The experimental analysis on a real dataset provides useful insights about the effectiveness of the method by identifying not only the main source of attack but also secondary sources that produce low traffic, targeting though multiple hosts.

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