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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have plagued the Internet for decades, but the basic defense approaches have not fundamentally changed. Rather, the size and rate of growth in attacks have actually outpaced carriers' and DDoS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zhiyi Zhang , Vishrant Vasavada , Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla , Angelos Stavrou , Eric Osterweil , Lixia Zhang

Low rate Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have emerged as a major threat to containerized cloud infrastructures. Due to their low traffic volumes, these attacks can be difficult to detect and mitigate, potentially causing serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ahmad Fareed , Bilal Al Habib , Anne Pepita Francis

A botnet is an army of zombified computers infected with malware and controlled by malicious actors to carry out tasks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are primarily targeted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Angela Grace Famera , Raj Mani Shukla , Suman Bhunia

Detecting covert channels among legitimate traffic represents a severe challenge due to the high heterogeneity of networks. Therefore, we propose an effective covert channel detection method, based on the analysis of DNS network data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Salvatore Saeli , Federica Bisio , Pierangelo Lombardo , Danilo Massa

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

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a persistent threat to network security, requiring timely and scalable mitigation strategies. In this paper, we propose a novel collaborative architecture that integrates a P4-programmable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ouassim Karrakchou , Alaa Zniber , Anass Sebbar , Mounir Ghogho

The increasing number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks poses a major threat to the Internet, highlighting the importance of DDoS mitigation. Most existing approaches require complex training methods to learn data features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhenyu Yin , Shang Liu , Guangyuan Xu

As the number of cyberattacks and their particualr nature escalate, the need for effective intrusion detection systems (IDS) has become indispensable for ensuring the security of contemporary networks. Adaptive and more sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Soham Chatterjee , Satvik Chaudhary , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

With the growing use of information technology in all life domains, hacking has become more negatively effective than ever before. Also with developing technologies, attacks numbers are growing exponentially every few months and become more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Khloud Al Jallad , Mohamad Aljnidi , Mohammad Said Desouki

Cybersecurity is essential, and attacks are rapidly growing and getting more challenging to detect. The traditional Firewall and Intrusion Detection system, even though it is widely used and recommended but it fails to detect new attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Mustafa Sakhai , Maciej Wielgosz

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides flexible and programmable network management; however, its centralized control architecture remains highly vulnerable to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, particularly Carpet-Bombing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mohammed N. Swileh , Shengli Zhang , Kai Lei

We present the Maestro attack, a novel Link Flooding Attack (LFA) that leverages control-plane traffic engineering techniques to concentrate botnet-sourced Distributed Denial of Service flows on transit links. Executed from a compromised or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Tyler McDaniel , Jared M. Smith , Max Schuchard

With massive data being generated daily and the ever-increasing interconnectivity of the world's Internet infrastructures, a machine learning based intrusion detection system (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zachary Tauscher , Yushan Jiang , Kai Zhang , Jian Wang , Houbing Song

The rapid increase of diverse Internet of things (IoT) services and devices has raised numerous challenges in terms of connectivity, computation, and security, which networks must face in order to provide satisfactory support. This has led…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nhu-Ngoc Dao , Trung V. Phan , Umar Sa ad , Joongheon Kim , Thomas Bauschert , Sungrae Cho

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have caused huge economic losses to society. They have become one of the main threats to Internet security. Most of the current detection methods based on a single feature and fixed model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jieren Cheng , Chen Zhang , Xiangyan Tang , Victor S. Sheng , Zhe Dong , Junqi Li , Jing Chen

In the presence of security countermeasures, a malware designed for data exfiltration must do so using a covert channel to achieve its goal. Among existing covert channels stands the domain name system (DNS) protocol. Although the detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Asaf Nadler , Avi Aminov , Asaf Shabtai

Network traffic is growing at an outpaced speed globally. The modern network infrastructure makes classic network intrusion detection methods inefficient to classify an inflow of vast network traffic. This paper aims to present a modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Harsh Dhillon , Anwar Haque

The development and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been accelerated dramatically in recent years. As a result, a super-network is required to handle the massive volumes of data collected and transmitted to these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Reem M. Alzhrani , Mohammed A. Alliheedi

We present a study of deep learning applied to the domain of network traffic data forecasting. This is a very important ingredient for network traffic engineering, e.g., intelligent routing, which can optimize network performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Benedikt Pfülb , Christoph Hardegen , Alexander Gepperth , Sebastian Rieger

As the frequency and complexity of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to increase, the level of threats posed to Smart Internet of Things (SIoT) business environments have also increased. These environments generally have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Oghenetejiri Okporokpo , Funminiyi Olajide , Nemitari Ajienka , Xiaoqi Ma