Article published in the Journal of Network and Systems Management

At the start of this academic year, we are pleased to announce that the extension of Shurok’s second proposal has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Network and Systems Management under the title QoSentry: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for QoS-Preserving DDoS Mitigation in Software-Defined Networks.

This work, which has been published as part of the collection Cyber-Security in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures, proposes a Double Deep Q-Network algorithm to preserve accessibility and performance for legitimate users in a software-defined network under different attack scenarios.
The experimental setup emulates real-world user behaviors to simulate practical network conditions. Our mitigation strategy employs adaptable countermeasures based on the current network state, thereby ensuring flexible and effective responses to varying threat levels.