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Record W3177384695 · doi:10.21467/proceedings.115.21

Using Machine Learning to Predict Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack

2021· article· en· W3177384695 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAIJR Proceedings · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection
Canadian institutionsConcordia University of Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDenial-of-service attackComputer scienceInternet Control Message ProtocolMachine learningArtificial intelligenceBotnetThe InternetData miningComputer securityNetwork packetWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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The IT space is growing in all aspects ranging from bandwidth, storage, processing speed, machine learning and data analysis. This growth has consequently led to more cyber threat and attacks which now requires innovative and predictive security approach that uses cutting-edge technologies in order to fight the menace. The patterns of the cyber threats will be observed so that proper analysis from different sets of data will be used to develop a model that will depend on the available data. Distributed Denial of Service is one of the most common threats and attacks that is ravaging computing devices on the internet. This research talks about the approaches and the development of machine learning classifiers to detect DDoS attacks before it eventually happen. The model is built with seven different selection techniques each using ten machine learning classifiers. The model learns to understand the normal network traffic so that it can detect an ICMP, TCP and UDP DDoS traffic when they arrive. The goal is to build a data-driven, intelligent and decision-making machine learning algorithm model that will use classifiers to categorize normal and DDoS traffic using KDD-99 dataset. Results have shown that some classifiers have very good predictions obtained within a very short time.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.800
Threshold uncertainty score0.610

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it