Multifractal Analysis of Internet Backbone Traffic for Detecting Denial of Service Attacks
- Authors: Zegzhda P.D.1, Lavrova D.S.1, Shtyrkina A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
- Issue: Vol 52, No 8 (2018)
- Pages: 936-944
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0146-4116/article/view/175679
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S014641161808028X
- ID: 175679
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Abstract
This paper proposes to use multifractal analysis to detect backbone network traffic anomalies that indicate network failures or attacks. Multifractal spectrum characteristics are used as security metrics. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is confirmed by experimental results on detecting Denial of Service attacks.
About the authors
P. D. Zegzhda
St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: zeg@ibks.ftk.spbstu.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 195251
D. S. Lavrova
St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: lavrova@ibks.spbstu.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 195251
A. A. Shtyrkina
St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Email: lavrova@ibks.spbstu.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 195251