Research Article

SDNDefender: A Comprehensive DDoS Defense Mechanism Using Hybrid Approaches over Software Defined Networking

Table 2

The structure of a rule header.

FieldValue

ActionAlert, log
ProtocolTCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP
Source addressA specific IP address, if any
Source portA specific port number, if any
Direction->, < >
Destination addressA specific IP address, if any
Destination portA specific port number, if any