Lightweight resource management for DDoS traffic isolation in a cloud environment

Abstract

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most difficult issues in network security and communications. This paper is a part of research project that applies distributed defense against distributed attacks. The aim of this project is to provide services by distributing load from one main server to an infrastructure of cloud-based replicas. This paper proposes a lightweight resource management for DDoS traffic isolation in cloud environments. Experimental results show that our mechanism is a viable approach for dynamic resource scaling under high traffic with distributed resource location.