Distributed Denial of Service Mitigation in Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking is a new networking architecture that is fast becoming popular and is already widely deployed across the world even by large companies like Google, Facebook etc. A centralized device called the controller has the whole view of the network making it easy to manage and control the underlying infrastructure. This offers many advantages and also vulnerabilities. This paper looks at the serious threat of protocol based DDoS attacks. Attackers can take advantage of protocol functioning to exploit a network. This research explored how we could take advantage of the SDN architecture to detect and stop these attacks before serious damage is done on the network.