Trends in Validation of DDoS Research

Over the last decade, attackers are compromising victim systems to launch large-scale coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against corporate websites, banking services, e-commerce businesses etc. These attacks results in cripple down their services to legitimate users and cause huge financial losses. Numerous solutions have been purported to combat against these DDoS attacks but there is no impeccable solution to this challenging problem till date. Most of the existing solutions have been validated using experiments based on simulation but recently, the researchers have started using publically available real datasets for the validation of DDoS research. In this paper, the validation techniques used for DDoS research are investigated comprehensively and it is proposed to extend them with the inclusion of new validation technique of analyzing real datasets. A brief review of existing real datasets is presented to elucidate the trends in the validation of DDoS research.