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Research on Detection Method of Abnormal Traffic in SDN

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Compared with traditional network, the network architecture and equipment function of SDN have changed dramatically. Thus it is necessary to research more targeted network security strategies. Abnormal traffic detection is the foundation of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention. For this reason, This paper proposes a specific abnormal flow detection method aimed at SDN. The method makes full use of flow-table in SDN switch to extract the features of abnormal flows, and applies information entropy to process non-numerical features of a flow into numerical features. Finally, a BP neural network model previously trained by these numerical features are used for abnormal flows detection. The contrast experiment results show that, this method can detect abnormal traffic in SDN effectively.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Nos. 61672101, the Beijing Key Laboratory of Internet Culture and Digital Dissemination Research (ICDDXN004)* and Key Lab of Information Network Security, Ministry of Public Security, No. C18601.

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Xu, Y., Cui, C., Xu, T., Li, Y. (2019). Research on Detection Method of Abnormal Traffic in SDN. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11632. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24274-9_22

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