Labelled Dataset on Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks Based on Internet Control Message Protocol Version 6 (ICMPv6)

Table 3

ICMPv6-based DDoS attack scenarios.

No.	Attack metric	Description
1	Sent packets	Any ICMPv6 packet
2	Source address	Either a real IPv6 address or a random (fake) IPv6 address
3	Destination address (victim)	Either a single device or group of devices (multicast address)
4	Attacking time	Different time distributed among the whole collection time
5	Attack type	Either ICMPv6 type or normal ICMPv6 traffic that is captured and resent in a short time period (replay attack)