Research Article

A Traffic Cluster Entropy Based Approach to Distinguish DDoS Attacks from Flash Event Using DETER Testbed

Table 3

Basic emulation environment parameters.

ParameterValue

Legitimate trafficWeb
Attack trafficUDP/TCP
HTTP request generation rate 0.1 to 1 (min–max)
Attack traffic strength200 kbps to 350 kbps
Number of clients used for normal traffic40
Number of clients used for generating flash event80
Process for generation of attackSpoofing