Date of Award

6-15-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Publisher

Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2020.

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

First Advisor

Behnam Dezfouli

Abstract

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a highly discussed network attack in Software Defined Networks. Attacks such as the Mirai Botnet threaten to compromise portion of large networks, including home users. Today, corporations secure their network using enterprise level software to protest their network from DDoS attacks . But their solutions are meant for large networks and depend on expensive hardware. There are few security solutions for home users and most are expensive or require a subscription for full protection. In this paper, we propose a new solution in the form of a plug and play device that will allow home users to easily take control of their network. We will be using the SON controller Faucet and the protocol OpenFlow 1.3 to enable software defined functionalities. In addition to more basic network features such as blocking websites, the device will allow users to receive notifications about possible malicious activities on their network, generate device profiles for all devices on the network, and automatically detect and mitigate flooding attacks using a random forest classifier. We implement our network virtually using Graphic Network Simulator 3.

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