Title
Comprehensive Review of Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Approaches in Distributed Denial of Service Attack and Defense Methods
Abstract
Until now, an effective defense method against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is yet to be offered by security systems. Incidents of serious damage due to DDoS attacks have been increasing, thereby leading to an urgent need for new attack identification, mitigation, and prevention mechanisms. To prevent DDoS attacks, the basic features of the attacks need to be dynamically analyzed because their patterns, ports, and protocols or operation mechanisms are rapidly changed and manipulated. Most of the proposed DDoS defense methods have different types of drawbacks and limitations. Some of these methods have signature-based defense mechanisms that fail to identify new attacks and others have anomaly-based defense mechanisms that are limited to specific types of DDoS attacks and yet to be applied in open environments. Subsequently, extensive research on applying artificial intelligence and statistical techniques in the defense methods has been conducted in order to identify, mitigate, and prevent these attacks. However, the most appropriate and effective defense features, mechanisms, techniques, and methods for handling such attacks remain to be an open question. This review paper focuses on the most common defense methods against DDoS attacks that adopt artificial intelligence and statistical approaches. Additionally, the review classifies and illustrates the attack types, the testing properties, the evaluation methods and the testing datasets that are utilized in the methodology of the proposed defense methods. Finally, this review provides a guideline and possible points of encampments for developing improved solution models of defense methods against DDoS attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2908998
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
DDoS attack,DDoS defense,artificial intelligence technique,statistical technique
Attack model,Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Ddos defense,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bashar Ahmed Khalaf120.35
Salama A. Mostafa216621.72
Aida Mustapha39026.18
Mazin Abed Mohammed4212.20
Wafaa Mustafa Abduallah520.35