A Reactive Defense Mechanism based on an Analytical Approach to Mitigate DDoS Attacks and Improve Network Performance

Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) have become more and more frequent and caused some fatal problems in the recent time. Internet users experience denial- of-service (DoS) attacks every day. Our inboxes are swamped with spam containing subject lines that sometimes fool us; our search-engine queries return many irrelevant results; and online auctions are plagued by corrupt database records filled with intentionally misleading keywords...