A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems

R ur Rasool, H Wang, U Ashraf, K Ahmed… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Link Flooding Attacks (LFA) are a devastating type of stealthy denial of service
attack that congests critical network links and can completely isolate the victim's network. In …

Cyberpulse: A machine learning based link flooding attack mitigation system for software defined networks

RU Rasool, U Ashraf, K Ahmed, H Wang… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) offers a novel paradigm for effective network
management by decoupling the control plane from the data plane thereby allowing a high …

CyberPulse++: A machine learning‐based security framework for detecting link flooding attacks in software defined networks

RU Rasool, K Ahmed, Z Anwar, H Wang… - … journal of intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A new class of link flooding attacks (LFA) can cut off internet connections of target links by
employing legitimate flows to congest these without being detected. LFA is especially …

Balance: Link flooding attack detection and mitigation via hybrid-sdn

N Ravi, SM Shalinie, DDJ Theres - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Link Flooding Attack (LFA) is a genre of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. LFA
can cut off a target area from the network, without directly attacking the target. The attacker …

Detecting and mitigating target link-flooding attacks using SDN

J Wang, R Wen, J Li, F Yan, B Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DDoS attacks have caused very serious damage to enterprise networks. Recently, a new
kind of DDoS attack called link-flooding attack (LFA), has surfaced and is already being …

FADM: DDoS flooding attack detection and mitigation system in software-defined networking

D Hu, P Hong, Y Chen - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) flooding attack is one of the most serious threats to
network security. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has recently emerged as a new …

Lightweight solutions to counter DDoS attacks in software defined networking

M Conti, C Lal, R Mohammadi, U Rawat - Wireless Networks, 2019 - Springer
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on any of the major components (eg, controller,
switches, and southbound channel) of software defined networking (SDN) architecture is a …

DAISY: A detection and mitigation system against denial-of-service attacks in software-defined networks

M Imran, MH Durad, FA Khan, H Abbas - IEEE Systems Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is becoming more and more popular due to its key
features like scalability, flexibility, and monitoring. SDN simplifies the network management …

Enhancing security in SDN: Systematizing attacks and defenses from a penetration perspective

J Kim, M Seo, S Lee, J Nam, V Yegneswaran… - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last 15 years, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has gained widespread support
from both research communities and the industry owing to its open nature and …

Toward an optimal solution against denial of service attacks in software defined networks

M Imran, MH Durad, FA Khan, A Derhab - Future Generation Computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control logic from data
forwarding and shifts the whole decision power to the controller, making the switch a dumb …