Biblio

Cloud computing is a long-established technique which deals with storage and processing of information. In cloud computing, any user is liable to pay and demand according to its particular needs. Due to various limitations of cloud computing like higher latency and more bandwidth consumptions for transmitted information, the origination of Fog computing was essential. Fog computing inherits all the advantages of cloud computing, and also brings computing at the network's edge. In addition, security is a very serious concern for cloud computing. In this paper, fog computing is used as a defensive approach from the day-to-day increasing security threats particularly DDoS attacks in cloud computing. Here an architecture has been proposed to obstruct the malicious traffic generated by the DDoS attack from user to the cloud by utilizing the benefits of fog computing. Fog functions as a filtering layer for the traffic generated and is placed between user and cloud. This paper primarily works to improve the overall performance of the network and enhances reduction in the traffic forwarded to the cloud.

Cloud is the requirement of today's competitive world that demand flexible, agile and adaptable technology to be at par with rapidly changing IT industry. Cloud offers scalable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go services to enterprise and has hence become a part of growing trend of organizations IT service model. With emerging trend of cloud the security concerns have further increased and one of the biggest concerns related to cloud is DDoS attack. DDoS attack tends to exhaust all the available resources and leads to unavailability of services in cloud to legitimate users. In this paper the concept of fog computing is used, it is nothing but an extension to cloud computing that performs analysis at the edge of the network, i.e. bring intelligence at the edge of the network for quick real time decision making and reducing the amount of data that is forwarded to cloud. We have proposed a framework in which DDoS attack traffic is generated using different tools which is made to pass through fog defender to cloud. Furthermore, rules are applied on fog defender to detect and filter DDoS attack traffic targeted to cloud.