A DDoS attack mitigation framework for internet of things
Vipindev Adat Vasudevan, Brij Bhooshan Gupta · 2017
The ubiquity of Internet has been escalating in the recent past as the Internet of Things (IoT) came into the picture. A large number of connected things has completely redefined the perspective of Internet. Advancements in the underlying technologies accelerated this change. On the other side, cyber-attacks also increased with all these developments. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have increased steeply with more devices to compromise and less secure targets to attack. The IoT networks have been a major victim of the DDoS attacks due to their resource constrained characteristics. Defending IoT-enabled devices and networks from DDoS attacks and being compromised to perform the DDoS attack is a challenging task. In this work, we have proposed a DDoS mitigation framework to defend DDoS attacks on an IoT network. The proposed framework matches with the resource constrained characteristics of IoT environment and suits to adapt to different IoT applications.