Ensemble-based model for DDoS attack detection and flash event separation

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to constitute a pernicious threat to the delivery of services within the Internet domain. These attacks harness the power of thousands, and sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands of compromised computers to attack web-services and online trading sites, resulting in significant down-time and financial loss. The problem of detecting DDoS attacks is complicated by Flash Events (FEs), which...