A Method Based on AMHI for DDoS Attacks Detection and Defense

The emergence of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack increases the destructive force of Denial of Service (DoS) attack drastically. Besides bringing more terrible threats, the attack from far and near and the employment of internet protocol (IP) spoofing make the abnormal traffic detection harder and harder. This paper proposes a mechanism defined as AMHI (Address Matching and Hash Inspection) and a method based on it for DDoS attacks detection and defense. Through the simulation experiment, the Address Matching and backup Hash Inspection operations to the suspicious traffic implemented on router interface for local subnet can detect and defend DDoS attacks effectively even when using IP Spoofing. In addition, this method can also decrease a mass of statistical work for the routers, and to some extent ease the pressure of heavy traffic caused by attacks.