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Performance Comparison of Machine

Learning and Deep Learning Models
in DDoS Attack Detection
Poonam Siddarkar , R. H. Goudar, Geeta S. Hukkeri, S. L.
Deshpande, Rohit B. Kaliwal, Pooja S. Patil & Prashant
Janagond

Conference paper First Online: 15 November 2023

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book

series (LNEE,volume 1078)

Abstract

In today’s world of the internet and growing

network technology, along with the advancement
of IoT technologies and automation of features, the
security and privacy preservation of the network
have become one of the main concerns in today’s
world. Due to the internet’s ever-expanding
network of gadgets, network intrusion has become
a trivial problem to identify and prevent network
threats from affecting them. There are numerous
types of network attacks, among which Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the
most dangerous and precarious ones as the user is
denied any access to the server resources or the
sites connected to it due to flooding of the network
traffic by malicious packets of the attacker. In this
paper, we have put forward a framework for the
detection of DDoS attacks using different machine
learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms.
We have made use of the Software–Defined
Network (SDN) dataset to identify the attack. First,
the dataset was imported, and then the data
underwent a data preprocessing stage where all the
null values have been filtered from the dataset.
Then the encoding and normalization of features
have been performed, and the data are split for
training and testing of the dataset. The data are
then fed to the mentioned classifiers and the
accuracy of each classifier is calculated, and the best
baseline classifier with the highest accuracy is
selected to detect the DDoS attacks. It is observed
that the Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifier has
an accuracy of 99.18% and is the most suitable
classifier for the detection of attacks. After finding
the best model, we further improved its
performance to 99.21% by visualizing and tuning
the hyperparameters of the model.

Keywords
 Machine learning DDoS DNN KNN

SVM SGD Naïve Bayes Decision tree

QDA Logistic Regression XGBoost

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Authors and Affiliations

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi,

India
Poonam Siddarkar, R. H. Goudar, Geeta S.
Hukkeri, S. L. Deshpande, Rohit B. Kaliwal, Pooja S.
Patil & Prashant Janagond

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Correspondence to Poonam Siddarkar .

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University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL, USA
Bhuvan Unhelkar

School of Science and Technology, Bournemouth

University, Poole, UK
Hari Mohan Pandey

Sharda School of Engineering and Technology,

Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Arun Prakash Agrawal

Sharda School of Engineering and Technology,

Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Ankur Choudhary

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Siddarkar, P. et al. (2023). Performance Comparison of
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in DDoS
Attack Detection. In: Unhelkar, B., Pandey, H.M., Agrawal,
A.P., Choudhary, A. (eds) Advances and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. ICAAAIML 2022.
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1078. Springer,
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