DDoS detection and defense
Kumar Sourav, Debi Prasad Mishra · 2012
A Denial-of-Service attack (DoS) or Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) is an attempt by an attacker to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its legitimate users. In general it is specified by an event in which legitimate user(s) is/are deprived from accessing certain services. Services may be web, mail or any other service which rely on network connectivity.