SURVEY ON DDOS FLODDING ATTACKS AND DEFENSE MECHANISM

DDoS attacks are a dreadful problem with the internet services and the network. DDoS attacks are the massive attacks launched by distributing malicious computers. The hard problem against the defense of the DDoS attack is to distinguish the legitimate traffic from the attack traffic. Different strategy used to a detect this attack. This paper introduces about the major problem occur in the security which is known as DDoS attacks. The objective of this paper is to provide a survey of various mechanisms of distributed denial flooding attacks, its detection and various approaches to handle these attacks. Detection of DDOS flooding attack can be on source side as well as on the victim side. Based on the surveyed work it provides the reader to work in the research by using these approaches and features of DDOSattacks.