An OpenStack based cloud testbed framework for evaluating HTTP flooding attacks

The cloud computing has inherent challenges to detect the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) flooding Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack due to its natural characteristics like virtualization, elasticity and multi-tenancy. The usage of cloud computing is user-friendly, but the implementation of the cloud infrastructure such as compute node, networking, cloud storage is very complex in order to achieve its various characteristics....