DDOS: Prevention and Detection

Abstract

Distributed denial-of-service is one of the most common and most highlighted attacks of today’s cyberworld. With simple but extremely powerful attack mechanisms, it introduces an immense threat to our current Internet community. In our research, we present a comprehensive survey of distributed denial-of-service attack, mitigation techniques, and ways to prevent future attacks. We provide a systematic analysis of this type of attacks including motivations and evolution, analysis of each different attack methods, protection techniques and mitigation techniques, and possible limitations and challenges of existing research. Lastly, we highlight the future of Distributed denial-of-service attacks and ways to counter and defend against them.