Research Article

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

Table 6

Parameters used for evaluation.

S. no.ParameterDescription

1BandwidthBandwidth consumed by ingress flow.
2TCP packetsThe number of TCP packets received.
3EntropyEntropy is the degree of random numbers, and low entropy means a higher degree of randomness and vice versa.
4SoftirqHigh-priority software processes are handled by software interrupts known as softirqs.
5SoftnetSoftnet statistics state the number of packets processed.