Detection of smurf flooding attacks using Kullback-Leibler-based scheme

Benamar Bouyeddou, Fouzi Harrou, Ying Sun, Benamar Kadri

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Abstract

Reliable and timely detection of cyber attacks become indispensable to protect networks and systems. Internet control message protocol (ICMP) flood attacks are still one of the most challenging threats in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. This paper proposed an approach based on Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) to detect ICMP-based Denial Of service (DOS) and Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) flooding attacks. This is motivated by the high capacity of KLD to quantitatively discriminate between two distributions. Here, the three-sigma rule is applied to the KLD distances for anomaly detection. We evaluated the effectiveness of this scheme by using the 1999 DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation Datasets.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 4th International Conference on Computer and Technology Applications (ICCTA)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages11-15
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781538669952
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 28 2018

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-09-14
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2015-CRG4-2582
Acknowledgements: The research reported in this publication was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No: OSR-2015-CRG4-2582. The authors (Benamar Bouyeddou and Benamar Kadri) would like to thank the STIC Lab, Department of Telecommunications, Abou Bekr Belkaid University for the continued support during the research.

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