A Study of Machine Learning Algorithms for DDoS Detection

Abstract

The Internet is used practically everywhere in today's digital environment. With the increased use of the Internet comes an increase in the number of threats. DDoS attacks are one of the most popular types of cyber-attacks nowadays. With the fast advancement of technology, the harm caused by DDoS attacks has grown increasingly severe. Because DDoS attacks may readily modify the ports/protocols utilized or how they function, the basic features of these attacks must be examined. Machine learning approaches have also been used extensively in intrusion detection research. Still, it is unclear what features are applicable and which approach would be better suited for detection. With this in mind, the research presents a machine learning-based DDoS attack detection approach. To train the attack detection model, we employ four Machine Learning algorithms: Decision Tree classifier (ID3), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), Logistic Regression, and Random Forest classifier. The results of our experiments show that the Random Forest classifier is more accurate in recognizing attacks.