A Defense Mechanism for Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Software-Defined Networks

Shibo Luo, Jun Wu, Jianhua Li, Bei Pei

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Abstract

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a major threat to Internet based killer applications, such as independent news web sites, e-business and online games. Detecting and blocking such clever attacks has become difficult. Software-Defined Networks (SDN) has emerged as a future communication network architecture which decouples network control and forwarding. It has some particular features such as central control and programmability to combat against DDoS attack. In this paper, we survey DDoS attacks and existing defense mechanisms, and draw a conclusion of the needs of defense mechanism for successful combating against DDoS. Then, we analyze the particular features of SDN and conclude it is conducive to countermeasure DDoS attack. According the analysis, we construct a defense mechanism for DDoS in SDN. At last, we illustrate how this mechanism could combat against DDoS attacks through a working example.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 9th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2015
EditorsXiaohua Jia, Yong Zhang, Tharam Dillion, Nei Kato, Yunquan Zhang, Kuan Ching Li, Kui Wu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages325-329
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467392952
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015 Oct 30
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2015 - Dalian, China
Duration: 2015 Aug 262015 Aug 28

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 9th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2015

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period15/8/2615/8/28

Keywords

  • Central Control
  • Distributed Denial of Service
  • Programmability
  • Software-Defined Networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Optimization
  • Modelling and Simulation

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