Deep learning for the security of software-defined networks: a review

R Taheri, H Ahmed, E Arslan - Cluster Computing, 2023 - Springer
As the scale and complexity of networks grow rapidly, management, maintenance, and
optimization of them are becoming increasingly challenging tasks for network administrators …

Secure architecture for Industrial Edge of Things (IEoT): A hierarchical perspective

P Li, J Xia, Q Wang, Y Zhang, M Wu - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an application of the IoT specifically
tailored for industrial manufacturing, characterized by its heightened requirements for …

A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning

NM Yungaicela-Naula, C Vargas-Rosales… - Journal of network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are difficult to mitigate with existing
defense tools. Fortunately, it has been demonstrated that Software-Defined Networking …

A hybrid machine learning approach for detecting unprecedented DDoS attacks

M Najafimehr, S Zarifzadeh, S Mostafavi - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Service availability plays a vital role on computer networks, against which
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an increasingly growing threat each year …

SDN/NFV-based framework for autonomous defense against slow-rate DDoS attacks by using reinforcement learning

NM Yungaicela-Naula, C Vargas-Rosales… - Future Generation …, 2023 - Elsevier
The unforeseen and skyrocketed shift in the number of connections to the Internet during the
last years has created vast and critical vulnerabilities in networks that cybercriminals have …

SmartDefense: A distributed deep defense against DDoS attacks with edge computing

S Myneni, A Chowdhary, D Huang, A Alshamrani - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing number of IoT edge devices have inflicted a change in the cyber-attack space.
The DDoS attacks, in particular, have significantly increased in magnitude and intensity. Of …

ReLFA: Resist link flooding attacks via renyi entropy and deep reinforcement learning in SDN-IoT

J Wang, Y Liu, W Zhang, X Yan, N Zhou… - China …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Link flooding attack (LFA) is a fresh distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Attackers can
cut off the critical links, making the services in the target area unavailable. LFA manipulates …

Federated Learning-Based Solution for DDoS Detection in SDN

J Mateus, GAL Zodi, A Bagula - 2024 International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One major threat to Software Defined Network (SDN) environments and other computing
systems is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. For the longest time, conventional …

SatShield: In-Network Mitigation of Link Flooding Attacks for LEO Constellation Networks

W Jiang, H Jiang, Y Xie, J Wu, X He… - IEEE Internet of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks provide global connectivity but are vulnerable to
security threats such as link flooding attacks. To defend against such attacks, stateof-the-art …

Defending Against Link-Flooding Attacks With Adversary Interest Prediction and Grouped Online Load Balancing

Z Huang, X Huang, K Xue, J Han… - IEEE Transactions …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Link Flooding Attack (LFA) is a type of link-aimed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attack that can overwhelm the Internet critical links to cut off connections with lots of low-rate …