Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: A Threat or Challenge. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaur Chahal, Jasmeen; Bhandari, Abhinav; Behal, Sunny
• Is Part Of: New review of information networking. Volume 24:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 31
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack -- taxonomy of DDoS attack mechanism -- taxonomy of DDoS defense mechanism -- open issues; Data transmission systems -- Periodicals; Information networks -- Periodicals; 004.605
• DOI: 10.1080/13614576.2019.1611468
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1361-4576

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In today's cyber world, the Internet has become a vital resource for providing a plethora of services. Unavailability of these services due to any reason leads to huge financial implications or even consequences on society. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as one of the most serious threats to the Internet whose aim is to completely deny the availability of different Internet based services to legitimate users. The attackers compromise a large number of Internet enabled devices and gain malicious control over them by exploiting their vulnerabilities. Simplicity of launching, traffic variety, IP spoofing, high volume traffic, involvement of numerous agent machines, and weak spots in Internet topology are important characteristics of DDoS attacks and makes its defense very challenging. This article provides a survey with the enhanced taxonomies of DDoS attacks and defense mechanisms. Additionally, we describe the timeline of DDoS attacks to date and attempt to discuss its impact according to various motivations. We highlighted the general issues, challenges, and current trends of DDoS attack technology. The aim of the article is to provide complete knowledge of DDoS attacks and defense mechanisms to the research community. This will, in turn, help to develop a powerful, effective, and efficient defense mechanism by filling the various research gaps addressed in already proposed defense mechanisms.