Monitoring and Mitigation of Application Layer DDOS Attacks through Heuristic Methods

The main aim of the proposed Paper is to implement a heuristic method to monitor and mitigate the Application-Layer DDoS Attacks for popular websites where even a legitimate HTTP request can cause flooding in web servers and also a method to identify whether the surge in traffic is caused by App-DDoS attackers or by normal web users. Rather than adapting to the traditional methods of DDoS Mitigation, our proposal aims at identifying the attackers attacking technique and provides an optimal solution.