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One of the most common internet attacks causing significant economic losses in recent years is the Denial of Service (DoS) flooding attack. As a countermeasure, intrusion detection systems equipped with machine learning classification…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mohamed Abushwereb , Muhannad Mustafa , Mouhammd Al-kasassbeh , Malik Qasaimeh

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Aman Priyanshu , Sarthak Shastri , Sai Sravan Medicherla

In current Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments, a mix of traditional IP networking and IoT specific protocols, both relying on the TCP protocol, can be used to transport data from a source to a destination. Therefore, TCP-specific attacks,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Pheeha Machaka , Olasupo Ajayi , Hloniphani Maluleke , Ferdinand Kahenga , Antoine Bagula , Kyandoghere Kyamakya

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) play a key role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly in enabling real-time communication for emergency vehicles. However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which interfere…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Bappa Muktar , Vincent Fono , Adama Nouboukpo

This paper forecasts future Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using deep learning models. Although several studies address forecasting DDoS attacks, they remain relatively limited compared to detection-focused research. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kong Mun Yeen , Rafidah Md Noor , Wahidah Md Shah , Aslinda Hassan , Muhammad Umair Munir

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has become one of the most destructive network attacks which can pose a mortal threat to Internet security. Existing detection methods can not effectively detect early attacks. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jieren Cheng , Junqi Li , Xiangyan Tang , Victor S. Sheng , Chen Zhang , Mengyang Li

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing mass targeted service disruptions, often for extended periods of time. The relative ease and low costs of launching such attacks, supplemented by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-18 Jaydip Sen

One of the most difficult challenges in cybersecurity is eliminating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Automating this task using artificial intelligence is a complex process due to the inherent class imbalance and lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ehsan Hallaji , Vaishnavi Shanmugam , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a constant threat for services in the Internet. This year, the record for the largest DDoS attack ever observed was set at 1.7 Tbps. Meanwhile, detection and mitigation mechanisms are still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Thomas Lukaseder , Shreya Ghosh , Frank Kargl

Volumetric attacks, which overwhelm the bandwidth of a destination, are among the most common DDoS attacks today. Despite considerable effort made by both research and industry, our recent interviews with over 100 potential DDoS victims in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Zhuotao Liu , Hao Jin , Yih-Chun Hu , Michael Bailey

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a network paradigm shift that facilitates comprehensive network programmability to cope with emerging new technologies such as cloud computing and big data. SDN facilitates simplified and centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Sarwan Ali , Maria Khalid Alvi , Safi Faizullah , Muhammad Asad Khan , Abdullah Alshanqiti , Imdadullah Khan

DoS and DDoS attacks have been growing in size and number over the last decade and existing solutions to mitigate these attacks are in general inefficient. Compared to other types of malicious cyber attacks, DoS and DDoS attacks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Eirik Molde Bårli , Anis Yazidi , Enrique Herrera Viedma , Hårek Haugerud

It is important to be able to detect and classify malicious network traffic flows such as DDoS attacks from benign flows. Normally the task is performed by using supervised classification algorithms. In this paper we analyze the usage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Quang-Vinh Dang

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

Cybersecurity, security monitoring of malicious events in IP traffic, is an important field largely unexplored by statisticians. Computer scientists have made significant contributions in this area using statistical anomaly detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Ganesh Subramaniam , Huan Chen , Ravi Varadhan , Robert Archibald

Botnets are prevailing mechanisms for the facilitation of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks or applications. Currently, Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer are latest and most problematic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Esraa Alomari , Selvakumar Manickam , B. B. Gupta , Shankar Karuppayah , Rafeef Alfaris

Slow-running attacks against network applications are often not easy to detect, as the attackers behave according to the specification. The servers of many network applications are not prepared for such attacks, either due to missing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Thomas Lukaseder , Lisa Maile , Benjamin Erb , Frank Kargl

This paper proposes an online cross-layered defense strategy for multi-channel systems with switched dynamics under DoS attacks. The enabling condition of a channel under attacks is formulated with respect to attack flow and channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Liheng Wan , Panshuo Li , James Lam

In emerging networked systems, mobile edge devices such as ground vehicles and unmanned aerial system (UAS) swarms collectively aggregate vast amounts of data to make machine learning decisions such as threat detection in remote, dynamic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Utku Demir , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella , Mengran Xue

Cyberthreats are a permanent concern in our modern technological world. In the recent years, sophisticated traffic analysis techniques and anomaly detection (AD) algorithms have been employed to face the more and more subversive adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Paul Irofti , Andrei Pătraşcu , Andrei Iulian Hîji