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

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Sr. no.</td><td class="align_center">Feature and parameter</td><td class="align_center">Notation</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Source IP and destination IP</td><td class="align_center"><span style="width: 53.5191ptpx;"><svg height="11.9316pt" id="M2" style="vertical-align:-3.2957pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.6359 53.5191 11.9316" width="53.5191pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M405 650H141L135 622C222 616 230 610 215 535L133 116C118 41 113 33 29 28L23 0H289L295 28C209 33 205 40 219 116L298 535C312 609 317 616 399 622L405 650Z"></path></g><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,4.915,0)"><path d="M600 480C600 590 528 650 384 650H143L137 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database</td><td class="align_center">TAD</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">9</td><td class="align_center">Permanent address database</td><td class="align_center">PAD</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">10</td><td class="align_center">Flow stat database</td><td class="align_center">FSD</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Features and parameter’s notation for algorithm.</div>

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Table 4: [Retracted] Lightweight Statistical Approach towards TCP SYN Flood DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation in SDN Environment 