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Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Michael Siracusano , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

Pushback is a mechanism for defending against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, but because most such congestion is caused by malicious hosts not obeying traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Saravanan Kumarasamy , R. Asokan

With the growing realization that current Internet protocols are reaching the limits of their senescence, a number of on-going research efforts aim to design potential next-generation Internet architectures. Although they vary in maturity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Paolo Gasti , Gene Tsudik , Ersin Uzun , Lixia Zhang

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new approach that allows network control to become directly programmable, and the underlying infrastructure can be abstracted from applications and network services. Control plane). When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Shahran Rahman Alve , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

The increasing popularity of web-based applications has led to several critical services being provided over the Internet. This has made it imperative to monitor the network traffic so as to prevent malicious attackers from depleting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Jaydip Sen

The popularity of Software Defined Networks (SDNs) has grown in recent years, mainly because of their ability to simplify network management and improve network flexibility. However, this also makes them vulnerable to various types of cyber…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Osama Mustafa , Khizer Ali , Talha Naqash

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust resources, leaving a server unavailable to legitimate clients. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a frequent target of DDoS attacks. Since DNS is a critical infrastructure service,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-16 A S M Rizvi , Jelena Mirkovic , John Heidemann , Wesley Hardaker , Robert Story

Existing defence mechanisms have demonstrated significant effectiveness in mitigating rule-based Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, leveraging predefined signatures and static heuristics to identify and block malicious traffic. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wei Shao , Yuhao Wang , Rongguang He , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Seyit Camtepe

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust victim's bandwidth or services. Traditional architecture of Internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks and an ongoing cycle of attack & defense is observed. In this paper, different types and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Muhammad Aamir , Mustafa Ali Zaidi

Present attack methods can make state-of-the-art classification systems based on deep neural networks misclassify every adversarially modified test example. The design of general defense strategies against a wide range of such attacks still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Sailik Sengupta , Tathagata Chakraborti , Subbarao Kambhampati

Detecting Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remains a critical challenge in cybersecurity. This research introduces a hybrid deep learning model combining Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and a Neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Caroline Panggabean , Chandrasekar Venkatachalam , Priyanka Shah , Sincy John , Renuka Devi P , Shanmugavalli Venkatachalam

Satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) have emerged as a promising architecture for providing seamless wireless coverage and connectivity for multiple users. However, potential malicious eavesdroppers pose a serious threat to the private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yujie Ling , Zan Li , Lei Guan , Zheng Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a key technique in various security applications as it takes away the attacker's ability to perform reconnaissance for exploiting a system's vulnerabilities. However, most of the existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Vignesh Viswanathan , Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri

Domain Name Service is a trusted protocol made for name resolution, but during past years some approaches have been developed to use it for data transfer. DNS Tunneling is a method where data is encoded inside DNS queries, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Franco Palau , Carlos Catania , Jorge Guerra , Sebastian Garcia , Maria Rigaki

The Software-defined networking(SDN) paradigm centralizes control decisions to improve programmability and simplify network management. However, this centralization turns the network vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks, and in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Gustavo A. Nunez Segura , Arsenia Chorti , Cintia Borges Margi

In recent years, computer networks have become more and more advanced in terms of size, applications, complexity and level of heterogeneity. Moreover, availability and performance are important issues for end users. New types of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mouhammd Alkasassbeh

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive and dynamic framework to counteract evolving cyber threats. Traditional MTD approaches often rely on assumptions about the attackers knowledge and behavior. However, real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri , Akshat Kumar

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) face growing threats from cyber-attacks that exploit sensor and control vulnerabilities. Digital Twin (DT) technology can detect anomalies via predictive modelling, but current methods cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammadhossein Homaei , Iman Khazrak , Rubén Molano , Andrés Caro , Mar Ávila

Cyber-attacks have been one of the deadliest attacks in today's world. One of them is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services). It is a cyber-attack in which the attacker attacks and makes a network or a machine unavailable to its intended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Aman Rangapur , Tarun Kanakam , Ajith Jubilson

One of the most common causes of lack of continuity of online systems stems from a widely popular Cyber Attack known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), in which a network of infected devices (botnet) gets exploited to flood the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio