Distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation using blockchain—a comprehensive insight

• Main Authors: Wani, Sharyar, Imthiyas, Mohammed, Almohamedh, Hamad, Alhamed, Khalid M, Almotairi, Sultan, Gulzar, Yonis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; TK7885 Computer engineering
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/88832/7/88832_Distributed%20denial%20of%20service%20%28DDoS%29%20mitigation%20using%20blockchain%E2%80%94a%20comprehensive%20insight.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/88832/; https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/2/227; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13020227

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a major threat impeding service to legitimate requests on any network. Although the first DDoS attack was reported in 1996, the complexity and sophistication of these attacks has been ever increasing. A 2 TBps attack was reported in mid-August 2020 dire...