Towards a forecasting model for distributed denial of service activities

Proceedings - IEEE 12th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 110-117

  Fachkha, Claude ^a   Bou Harb, Elias ^a   Debbabi, Mourad ^a  

^a University of Concordia   (Canada)

Author keywords

DDoS; DFA; DoS; Forecasting; Prediction

Indexed keywords

DDOS; DFA; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHODS; FORECASTING MODELING; SECURITY OPERATORS;

DOS; FORECASTING;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84889029859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCA.2013.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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