BARTD: Bio-inspired anomaly based real time detection of under rated App-DDoS attack on web

• Published in: Journal of King Saud University. Computer and information sciences 2020-01, Vol.32 (1), p.73-87
• Main Authors: Prasad, K. Munivara, Reddy, A. Rama Mohan, Rao, K. Venugopal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1319-1578
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2017.07.004

The internet network is mostly victimized to the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attack, which is one that intentionally occupies the computing resources and bandwidth in order to deny that services to potential users. The attack scenario is to flood the packets immensely. If the attack source is single, then the attack is referred as denial of service (DOS) and if attack is sourced from divergent servers, then it is referred as DDOS. It is imperative from the analysis that there are constraints in the existing models since the most of these models are user session based and/or packet flow patterns. The session based evolution models are vulnerable to botnets and packet flow pattern based models are vulnerable if attack sources are equipped with human resource and/or proxy servers. Hence, there is inherent need for improving the solutions towards addressing the App-DDoS attacks over the system. The crux for such system is about ensuring that fast and early detection with minimal false alarming in streaming network transactions, and ensures that the genuine requests are not impacted. To address such a system, the model of Bio-Inspired Anomaly based App-DDoS detection aimed, and the proposed model depicted in detail along with experimental inputs. Results attained from the process exemplify the significance and robustness of the model towards achieving the objectives considered for the solution. Keywords: Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Distributed DoS (DDoS) Attacks, Application Layer DDoS (APP-DDoS), Bio inspired approaches