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Countermeasure Based on Smart Contracts and AI against DoS/DDoS Attack in 5G Circumstances

  • Liming Fang
  • , Bo Zhao
  • , Yang Li
  • , Zhe Liu
  • , Chunpeng Ge
  • , Weizhi Meng

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Abstract

The development of 5G has substantially increased the destructiveness of DoS/DDoS attacks because the data processing capability of computers has not been accordingly enhanced, and this contradiction creates a vulnerability for attackers to compromise a server by sending a massive data flow. in practical 5G circumstances, it is difficult to extract distinct features between malicious and benign massive data flows. This amplifies the difficulties of DoS/DDoS detection. Thus, precautions against DoS/DDoS attack in 5G are of great importance. in this article, we present a solution based on smart contracts and machine learning as a countermeasure against DoS/DDoS attacks in the 5G background by hiding a protected server in a blockchain network and flexibly restricting the scale of DoS/DDoS via transaction fees. We also leverage non-repudiation of smart contracts, analyzing users' malicious behavior of communication and executing punishment via smart contracts. Our scheme could effectively mitigate massive DoS/DDoS attacks in advance and dynamically punitively charge DoS/DDoS attacks. Compared to existing DoS/DDoS defense in 4G, our scheme offers numerous benefits, including making benign communication always dominate rational users and countering DoS/DDoS attacks before they are launched. Moreover, compared to common DoS/DDoS detection based on Ai, we consider the source trustworthiness of training samples and take measures to avoid backdoors where model trainers may compromise Ai models to launch DoS/DDoS attacks.
Original languageEnglish
Article number9277902
JournalIEEE Network
Volume34
Issue number6
Number of pages8
ISSN0890-8044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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