A Survey on Defense Mechanisms countering DDoS Attacks in the Network

Abstract: Distributed Denial of Service attacks disrupts the availability of a service or resource in the internet. A substantial no of Distributed DoS attacks potential have to severely decrease backbone availability and which enable it to virtually detach a network from the net. As a result of the seriousness of the problem many defense methods have been proposed to combat these attacks. We present an extensive survey of DDoS detection methods as published in technical papers. The paper also highlights the open issues, research challenges and possible solutions. The purpose of the paper is usually to put some order into the existing defense methods, to ensure that a greater perception of DDoS attacks methods may be accomplished and subsequently better efficient and effective algorithms, techniques and procedures to combat these attacks could also be developed.

Keywords: Agent, Attacker, Denial of Service, Defense Mechanisms.