An Efficient Entropy Based Approach for the Detection of DDOS Attack

Authors(3) :-Abhilash Singh, Kausthav Pratim Kalita, Sweta Bhadra

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is now a big threat to the steady functioning of any network. DDoS attack is an attempt to degrade the victim resources. The legitimate users are denied of services by eating up the communicational memory and computational resources of the victim system through sheer volume of traffic. Various schemes are developed to detect DDoS attacks. One of the schemes is the Entropy based approach. In this paper we have discussed some of the research work on entropy based DDoS attack detection. We have also analysed an efficient entropy based approach to detect the DDoS attack. The experiment is carried out on NS2 simulator. The simulation result shows that the proposed approach can detect the DDoS attack efficiently.

Authors and Affiliations

Abhilash Singh
Department of CSE, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam, India
Kausthav Pratim Kalita
Department of CSE, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam, India
Sweta Bhadra
Department of CSE, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam, India

DDoS, Entropy, Normalized Entropy

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 4 | March-April 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-03-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 13-17
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET1738102
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Abhilash Singh, Kausthav Pratim Kalita, Sweta Bhadra, " An Efficient Entropy Based Approach for the Detection of DDOS Attack, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp.13-17, March-April-2018. Citation Detection and Elimination     |     
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