A Survey on Mitigation Techniques against DDoS Attacks on Cloud Computing Architecture

Abstract

Service availability is one of the most important aspects of cloud environments. The threat to availability of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks plays an important role when designing the security architecture. A successful DDoS attack might result in service degradation or complete outage. The methods and techniques used against DDoS attacks in cloud environment are sometimes different from those used within the traditional networks, and on other times they are the same. In this paper, we are going to investigate challenges and mitigation techniques against DDoS attacks in cloud and compare between them in cloud environment. This survey will support the future research and development work as well as to raise the awareness about the presented approaches.