Review Article

[Retracted] Prevention Techniques against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Heterogeneous Networks: A Systematic Review

Table 1

Summary of SDN-based DDoS prevention techniques.

ReferenceMain ideaTypeStrengthFuture workResults

Myint et al. [33]Enhancing the functionalities of the existing SVM algorithm by purposing ASVM (advance vector machine) to detect DDOS assaultDetectionMinimize the disturbance of users’ activitiesIn the future, an online detection DDoS attacks system on SDN networks and other SDN layer attack planes should be consideredExperimental outcomes show that the proposed detection technique has a 97 percent accuracy rate with the shortest training and testing times

Prakash and Priyadarshini [34]A smart intrusion detection model can distinguish between malicious and normal arriving packetsDetectionThe proposed method can successfully determine whether the incoming packet is maliciousAfter identifying the infected packets, extra actions would take to notify the target users and devices more quickly in the futureExperimental results show that KNN performed best out of the three algorithms trained on 75% of the data

Y. C. Wang and Y. C. Wang [35]Purposing lightweight, effective ELD mechanism to fight against protocol-type DDoS attacksDetection and preventionPurposed method decreases the costs of the controller and quickly identifies and prevents DDOS attacksThis study is an initial step in this field of research. More research in the future can improve the accuracy of this techniqueFindings prove that ELD enhances the true positive rate, dramatically reduces false alarms, and substantially decreases the cost of the controller

Nam et al. [36]Utilizing self-organizing map to categorize the present network status as regular or maliciousDetectionAs compared to traditional detection algorithms, the proposed techniques performed betterThe attempted methods used to automate the selection of an attribute can be explored in the futureOutcomes show that proposed algorithms can shorten processing time while maintaining a high level of accuracy

Hu et al. [37]Purposing FADM is an effective and lightweight framework for the detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks in an SDN contextDetection and mitigationAs compared to other existing detection techniques, running costs of FADM is quite lowIn the future, application-layer DDoS attacks and botnets can be detected using the characteristics of SDN and machine learning technologiesResults reveal that several DDoS attacks can be efficiently identified and mitigated, and networks can recover quickly by using FADM

Giri et al. [38]Blockchain and software-defined network is used to support a shared DDoS mitigation architecture across various network domainsMitigationThe proposed technique helps to reduce the complexities of shielding a hybridized enterprise against the impacts of DDoS attacksThe proposed architecture would be evaluated with and without blockchain applications to determine the system’s effectiveness in the futureExperimental results reveal that SDN’s capacity made a network decentralized, while blockchain’s distributed nature gave a viable approach to collaborative DDoS mitigation