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Detecting and Mitigating DDOS Attacks in SDNs Using Deep Neural Network
Gul Nawaz1, Muhammad Junaid1, Adnan Akhunzada2, Abdullah Gani2,*, Shamyla Nawazish3, Asim Yaqub3, Adeel Ahmed1, Huma Ajab4
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Department of Information Technology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, 22060, Pakistan
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Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia
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Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, 22010, Pakistan
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Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, 22010, Pakistan
* Corresponding Author: Abdullah Gani. Email:
Computers, Materials & Continua 2023, 77(2), 2157-2178. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.026952
Received 08 January 2022; Accepted 22 April 2022; Issue published 29 November 2023
Abstract
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is the most common attack that obstructs a network and makes it
unavailable for a legitimate user. We proposed a deep neural network (DNN) model for the detection of DDoS
attacks in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN centralizes the control plane and separates
it from the data plane. It simplifies a network and eliminates vendor specification of a device. Because of this
open nature and centralized control, SDN can easily become a victim of DDoS attacks. We proposed a supervised
Developed Deep Neural Network (DDNN) model that can classify the DDoS attack traffic and legitimate traffic.
Our Developed Deep Neural Network (DDNN) model takes a large number of feature values as compared to
previously proposed Machine Learning (ML) models. The proposed DNN model scans the data to find the
correlated features and delivers high-quality results. The model enhances the security of SDN and has better
accuracy as compared to previously proposed models. We choose the latest state-of-the-art dataset which consists of
many novel attacks and overcomes all the shortcomings and limitations of the existing datasets. Our model results
in a high accuracy rate of 99.76% with a low false-positive rate and 0.065% low loss rate. The accuracy increases to
99.80% as we increase the number of epochs to 100 rounds. Our proposed model classifies anomalous and normal
traffic more accurately as compared to the previously proposed models. It can handle a huge amount of structured
and unstructured data and can easily solve complex problems.
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APA Style
Nawaz, G., Junaid, M., Akhunzada, A., Gani, A., Nawazish, S. et al. (2023). Detecting and mitigating DDOS attacks in sdns using deep neural network. Computers, Materials & Continua, 77(2), 2157-2178. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.026952
Vancouver Style
Nawaz G, Junaid M, Akhunzada A, Gani A, Nawazish S, Yaqub A, et al. Detecting and mitigating DDOS attacks in sdns using deep neural network. Computers Materials Continua . 2023;77(2):2157-2178 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.026952
IEEE Style
G. Nawaz et al., "Detecting and Mitigating DDOS Attacks in SDNs Using Deep Neural Network," Computers Materials Continua , vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 2157-2178. 2023. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.026952