[Retracted] Lightweight Statistical Approach towards TCP SYN Flood DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation in SDN Environment

Table 1

Some of the famous DDoS attacks in history.

Victim	Year	Attack type	Attack rate
Google [3]	2020	Spoof	167 million pps
Amazon [4]	2020	Multivector DDoS	2.3 Tbps
GitHub [5]	2018	Memcached DDoS	126.9 million pps
NETSCOUT client	2018	Multivector DDoS	1.7 Tbps
Dyn	2016	Mirai malware	1.5 Tbps
Brian Kerbs	2016	Mirai malware	620 Gbps
BBC [6]	2015	Application based DDoS	600 Gbps
Hong Kong	2014	DDoS	500 Gbps
CloudFlare	2014	NTP protocol DDoS	400 Gbps
Spamhaus	2013	Spam DDoS	200 Gbps
Six Banks	2012	Various DDoS	63.3 Gbps