ShChain_3D-ResNet: Sharding Blockchain with 3D-Residual Network (3D-ResNet) Deep Learning Model for Classifying DDoS Attack in Software Defined Network

• Published in: Symmetry (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 6; p. 1254
• Main Authors: Fenil, E., Mohan Kumar, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-06-2022
• Subjects: Assaults; Blockchain; Classification; Cryptography; Cybersecurity; Datasets; Deep learning; Denial of service attacks; Design; Encryption; Internet of Things; Machine learning; Malware; neural network security; Privacy; Recall; Software; Software Defined Network (SDN); Software-defined networking; Symmetry; Traffic congestion
• ISSN: 2073-8994; 2073-8994
• DOI: 10.3390/sym14061254

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) vulnerabilities have rapidly extended and have been given different possibilities for even more advanced assaults on specific targets in recent times, thanks to the growth of innovative technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The attack patterns route comprises unprotected and susceptible IoT systems that are internet-connected, as well as denial of service weaknesses in the SDN controllers, such as southbound connection exhaustion. (1) Background: The review does not go into detail about the symmetry blockchain approaches used to mitigate DDoS attacks, nor does it classify them in IoT; (2) To overcome the privacy issues, a novel deep learning-based privacy preservation method was proposed named ShChain_3D-ResNet. This novel method combines Sharding, blockchain and Residual Network for securing the SDN. Under this network, the proposed efficient attention module jointly learns attention to enforce the symmetry on weights for various channels in spatial dimension as well as attention weights of multiple frames in temporal dimension assistance of pre-training, updating, and dense convolution process; (3) Results: the proposed ShChain_3D-ResNet achieves 95.6% of accuracy, 97.3% of precision, 95.2% of recall, 94.4% of F1-score, 32.5 ms of encryption time and 35.2 ms of decryption time for dataset-1. Further, it achieves 97.3% accuracy, 95.3% precision, 96.1% recall, 98.2% F1-score, 32.1 ms of encryption time, and 36.2 ms of decryption time for dataset-2; (4) Conclusions: The Sharding strategy can increase ShChain performance while simultaneously utilizing Multi User (MU) resources for SDN.