A Secured Architecture for Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attack Integrating Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (eBook)

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: 87 %, Bharathidasan University, language: English, abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing play a vital role in the field of Information Technology. The goal of IoT is to link objects of heterogeneous in nature to avail smart services and application anywhere, anytime using any device. Cloud Computing allows computer users to conveniently rent access to fully featured applications, to software development and deployment environments, and to computing infrastructure assets such as network-accessible data storage and processing with its salient features of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Though the Cloud and IoT have emerged as independent technology, merging these two technologies brings renaissance in the field of future networks and in building smart environment. This new evolvement is known as CloudIoT. One of the important challenges in CloudIoT is security. Challenges on the integration of the Cloud within IoT are to be a major bottleneck. The integration of security mechanism and data privacy are also a major concern. Any leakage of information from any of the CloudIoT could severely damage the privacy and authenticity of the users and data. Researchers all over the world put on efforts in integrating smart CloudIoT services to satisfy the needs of the CloudIoT Users. But no prominent architecture has been authenticated so far. Hence, it is imperative to design architecture to integrate CloudIoT smart services and applications to access smart services in a secured manner at anywhere, anytime. The major challenges in implementing this scenario are security factors such as authenticity, confidentiality, integrity, and privacy. In network security, there are several types of attacks which can harm the network resources and services. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is one of the malicious attacks which can harm data communication in CoT potentially. There is a problem that may render customers to withdraw from the cloud services. A traditional DDoS attack aims at servers and/or the bandwidth of a network or a website in order to make them unavailable to their intended users. However, attackers can generate DDoS attack to harm the cloud resources in the same way as the cloud has a huge pool of resources which are larger than attackers resources.

DR. E.Helen Parimala, is currently working as a Associate professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, SSM College of Arts and Science, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India. She has 9 years experience in teaching. She started her journey in academics by graduating with B.Sc Computer Science from Madurai kamaraj University with excellent academic record. She further studied at Madurai kamaraj university and holds Master degree (M.Sc) in Computer Science and also finished M.Ed in Tamilnadu Teacher Education. Further in her pursuit of education she has completed her Master of Philosophy (M.phil). She has obtained Ph.D degree in Computer Science, St.Joseph's College(Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. Her research interests include Computer Networks, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things. She has published various papers in the field of Internet of Things, Analysis and Implementation of Mechanisms to optimize network performance in high speed networks and Cloud environment. In Addition to academic career she has played a Role as a Director for Value Added Courses. She is a passionate professor to teach Information Technology subjects. She has never been reluctant to take up superfluous work, including than familiar subjects, which she worked hard to grasp and convey to the students. She attended twenty national and international conferences to enhance her professional knowledge during her working years. She has published 12 Research Article for accepting various forum like Scopus Indexed, Web of Science, UGC Care List Journals.