| Title | Distributed Denial Of Service(DDoS) Mitigation in Software Defined Network using Blockchain |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Giri, Nupur, Jaisinghani, Rahul, Kriplani, Rohit, Ramrakhyani, Tarun, Bhatia, Vinay |
| Conference Name | 2019 Third International conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC) |
| Keywords | autonomous systems, blockchain, collaborative DDoS mitigation architecture, composability, Computer crime, computer network security, contracts, cryptography, DDoS, DDoS Attack, DDoS attack mitigation, DDoS Prevention Service, Distributed databases, distributed denial of service attack, DPS, Human Behavior, IP networks, Metrics, network threat, Network topology, Peer-to-peer computing, private blockchain, pubcrawl, Resiliency, SDN, security, smart contract, smart contracts, Soft Defined Network, software defined networking, software-defined networking, telecommunication security, telecommunication traffic, Topology |
| Abstract | A DDoS attack is a spiteful attempt to disrupt legitimate traffic to a server by overwhelming the target with a flood of requests from geographically dispersed systems. Today attackers prefer DDoS attack methods to disrupt target services as they generate GBs to TBs of random data to flood the target. In existing mitigation strategies, because of lack of resources and not having the flexibility to cope with attacks by themselves, they are not considered to be that effective. So effective DDoS mitigation techniques can be provided using emerging technologies such as blockchain and SDN(Software-Defined Networking). We propose an architecture where a smart contract is deployed in a private blockchain, which facilitates a collaborative DDoS mitigation architecture across multiple network domains. Blockchain application is used as an additional security service. With Blockchain, shared protection is enabled among all hosts. With help of smart contracts, rules are distributed among all hosts. In addition, SDN can effectively enable services and security policies dynamically. This mechanism provides ASes(Autonomous Systems) the possibility to deploy their own DPS(DDoS Prevention Service) and there is no need to transfer control of the network to the third party. This paper focuses on the challenges of protecting a hybridized enterprise from the ravages of rapidly evolving Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) attack. |
| DOI | 10.1109/I-SMAC47947.2019.9032690 |
| Citation Key | giri_distributed_2019 |
Distributed Denial Of Service(DDoS) Mitigation in Software Defined Network using Blockchain