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A Profile-Based Novel Framework for Detecting EDoS Attacks in the Cloud Environment

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The future of information technology mainly depends upon cloud computing. Hence security in cloud computing is highly essential for the consumers as well as the service providers of the particular cloud environment. There are many security threats are challenging the current cloud environment. One of the important security threat ever in cloud environment is considered to be the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Where cloud is of greater benefit in terms of providing on-demand services, a certain kind of attack named as Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) occurs in pay per use payment model. Due to the occurrence of this attack the consumers are forced to pay additional amount for the services offered. EDoS attacks are similar to that of DDoS attacks Which is classified as-attacks associated with bandwidth consuming, application targeted attacks and the exhaustion of the connection layer. The main objective of the proposed work is to design a profile-based novel framework for maximizing the detection of various types of EDoS attacks. During this process, the proposed framework consisting Feature Classification (FC) algorithm ensures that false positives and negatives along with bandwidth and memory consumption are highly minimized. The proposed algorithm allows only the limited resources for allocation to the available virtual machines which increases the chances of the detecting the attack and preventing the misuse propagation of resources. The accuracy and efficiency of this approach is proven to be higher with lesser computational complexity when compare to the existing approaches.

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Dennis, J.B., Priya, M.S. A Profile-Based Novel Framework for Detecting EDoS Attacks in the Cloud Environment. Wireless Pers Commun 117, 3487–3503 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08280-y

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