Machine Learning-Based Approach for Detecting DDoS Attack in SDN

Athari Alnatsheh, Ayoub Alsarhan, Mohammad Aljaidi, Husnain Rafiq, Khalid Mansour, Ghassan Samara, Bashar Igried, Yousef Ali Al Gumaei

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Abstract

With the great widespread networking and Software-Defined Network (SDN) solutions, software-defined networks have become the target of many different attacks and security threats. Software-defined networks are frequently exposed to denial-of-service attacks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), which may harm the controller or switch of SDN.. Consequently, the services offered by this network can be negatively affected.In this research, an experimental work was conducted to detect a DDoS Flooding attack. The features were extracted from a dataset to understand the behavior of the SDN and measure its performance in case of normally operating or when it is subjected to a DDoS attack.The performance of SDN was evaluated using several machine learning classifiers. Three classifiers are used in our experiments: Random forest (RF), Support vector machine (SVM), and Naive Bayes (NB).The results showed the superiority of the RF classifier over other classifiers with a detection accuracy of 98.89%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd International Engineering Conference on Electrical, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence, EICEEAI 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350373363
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Dec 2023
Event2nd International Engineering Conference on Electrical, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence, EICEEAI 2023 - Zarqa, Jordan
Duration: 27 Dec 202328 Dec 2023

Publication series

Name2nd International Engineering Conference on Electrical, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence, EICEEAI 2023

Conference

Conference2nd International Engineering Conference on Electrical, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence, EICEEAI 2023
Country/TerritoryJordan
CityZarqa
Period27/12/2328/12/23

Keywords

  • Attack modelling
  • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
  • Networks security
  • Software-defined networks (SDN)

Research Centres

  • Data and Complex Systems Research Centre

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