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Deep Learning-Based Detection Mechanism for DDoS Attacks Targeting SDN Controller

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Abdullah Ahmed Bahashwan *
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Mohammed Anbar *
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Selvakumar Manickam
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Ali Abdulqader Bin-Salem
DOI:10.1007/s10922-026-10048-3delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The rapid adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in cloud, IoT, and Big Data environments introduces significant security challenges, particularly for the SDN controller, which lacks built-in protection and remains vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. This study proposes an enhanced deep learning-based detection mechanism for identifying multi-rate DDoS attacks in an SDN controller. The proposed mechanism is evaluated under two attack scenarios and achieves an average accuracy of 99.91% for high-rate and 99.21% for low-rate attacks when detecting DDoS flooding traffic. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed mechanism in protecting the SDN controller against DDoS attacks.
Keywords:
Cybersecurity attacks
SDN controller
Deep learning (DL)
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Journal

Journal of Network and Systems Management cover
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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computer science and technology
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cyres
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