Abstract
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic. It has caused great harm to the security of the network environment. This paper develops a novel framework called PCA-RNN (Principal Component Analysis-Recurrent Neural Network) to identify DDoS attacks. In order to comprehensively understand the network traffic, we select most network characteristics to describe the traffic. We further use the PCA algorithm to reduce the dimensions of the features in order to reduce the time complexity of detection. By applying PCA, the prediction time can be significantly reduced while most of the original information can still be contained. Data after dimensions reduction is fed into RNN to train and get detection model. Evaluation result shows that for the real dataset, PCA-RNN can achieve significant performance improvement in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, precision, and F-score compared to the several existing DDoS attacks detection methods.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Douligeris, C., Mitrokotsa, A.: DDoS attacks and defense mechanisms: a classification. In: IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 190–193. IEEE (2003)
Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323Â K. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/study-attack-on-krebsonsecurity-cost-iot-device-owners-323k/
Tao, Y., Yu, S.: DDoS attack detection at local area networks using information theoretical metrics. In: IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, pp. 233–240. IEEE (2013)
Mousavi, S.M., Sthilaire, M.: Early detection of DDoS attacks against SDN controllers. In: International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, pp. 77–81. IEEE (2015)
Ren, X.Y., Wang, R.C., Wang, H.Y.: Wavelet analysis method for detection of DDoS attack based on self-similar. J. Commun. 2(1), 73–77 (2006)
Dong, P., Du, X., Zhang, H., et al.: A detection method for a novel DDoS attack against SDN controllers by vast new low-traffic flows. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 1–6. IEEE (2016)
Bilge, L., Balzarotti, D., Robertson, W., et al.: Disclosure: detecting botnet command and control servers through large-scale NetFlow analysis. In: Computer Security Applications Conference, pp. 129–138. ACM (2012)
Zhang, G., Jiang, S., Wei, G., et al.: A prediction-based detection algorithm against distributed denial-of-service attacks. In: International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly, IWCMC 2009, Leipzig, Germany, June, pp. 106–110. DBLP (2009)
Kumar, S.: Smurf-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack amplification in internet. In: International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection, p. 25. IEEE Computer Society (2007)
Kumar, S., Azad, M., Gomez, O., et al.: Can Microsoft?s Service Pack2 (SP2) security software prevent SMURF attacks?. In: Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications and International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, p. 89. IEEE (2006)
Kim, S.J., Lee, S., Bae, B.: HAS-analyzer: detecting HTTP-based C&C based on the analysis of HTTP activity sets. KSII Trans. Internet Inf. Syst. 8(5), 1801–1816 (2014)
Jacob, G., Hund, R., Kruegel, C., et al.: JACKSTRAWS: picking command and control connections from BOT traffic. In: Usenix Conference on Security, p. 29. USENIX Association (2011)
Tegeler, F., Fu, X., Vigna, G., et al.: BotFinder: finding bots in network traffic without deep packet inspection. In: Co-Next, pp. 349–360 (2012)
KDD Cup Data. http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/kddcup99/kddcup-99.html
Acknowledgement
The paper is sponsored by CUC Guangzhou Institute (Project No: 2014-10-05).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Li, Q., Meng, L., Zhang, Y., Yan, J. (2019). DDoS Attacks Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms. In: Zhai, G., Zhou, J., An, P., Yang, X. (eds) Digital TV and Multimedia Communication. IFTC 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1009. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8138-6_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8138-6_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-8137-9
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-8138-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)