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Empowering SDN with DDoS attack detection: leveraging hybrid machine learning based IDPS controller for robust security

2025· article· en· W4411095380 on OpenAlex
G Florance, R. J. Anandhi

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Bibliographic record

VenueIAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection
Canadian institutionsHorizon College and Seminary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceDenial-of-service attackController (irrigation)Computer securityArtificial intelligenceMachine learningThe InternetOperating system

Abstract

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<p>Software-defined network (SDN) is an innovative networking framework where a centralized controller manages networking administration and sorts out network traffic issues. It becomes difficult for the controller to identify the malicious user who is sending a large number of spoofed packets, such as in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. To prevent DDoS attacks from damaging legitimate users, it is important to take steps to prevent them. The issue of preventing DDoS attacks in SDN remains unresolved despite many algorithms proposed. Methods presented in this paper employ bandwidth threshold estimation, which triggers the intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) controller if the threshold is exceeded. Whenever the threshold is exceeded due to network congestion, transferred packets are filtered at the server level by identifying the utilization of bandwidth in OpenDaylight (ODL) and POX. K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) and support vector machine (SVM) are used by the IDPS controller to detect and thwart DDoS attacks. Using Mininet, two SDN centralized controllers are simulated to improve performance significantly. Based on SVM in the ODL controller, this work has provided mitigation techniques for preventing DDoS attacks with an accuracy of 96.75% compared to previously published accuracy.</p>

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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)0.001
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: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.964
Threshold uncertainty score0.671

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.275 · 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