A ROBUST MECHANISM TO MITIGATE DDOS ATTACK USING ENTROPY VARIATION
Reddybathini Durga Siva Prasad, P.R.Krishna Prasad · IJITR International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research - IJITR International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research · 2014
In the scenario of attack of Distributed Denial-of-Service, the flows by means of destination as the victim consist of legitimate flows and a grouping of flows of attack and legitimate flows.To commence an attack of Distributed Denial-of-Service, the attacker initially set up a network of computers that are used to produce the enormous traffic amounts that are essential to reject services to the legitimate users of the victim.The volumes of various flows augment considerably in an extremely small time period in the attack of Distributed Denial-of-Service when compared with the cases of non attack.The use of flow entropy variation was introduced in this paper.Once an attack of Distributed Denial-of-Service has been recognized, the victim commences the succeeding process of pushback to spot the location of zombies.Additionally this process is repetitive in a fashion of parallel and distributed mode until it reaches the source of attack otherwise the limit of discrimination connecting the flows of attack and lawful flows is fulfilled.