Detecting and Mitigating DDoS Attacks with AI: A Survey

Alexandru Apostu, Silviu Gheorghe, Andrei Hîji, Nicolae Cleju, Andrei Pătraşcu +3 more
3/22/2025
cs.CRcs.AIcs.LG

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Distributed Denial of Service attacks represent an active cybersecurity research problem. Recent research shifted from static rule-based defenses towards AI-based detection and mitigation. This comprehensive survey covers several key topics. Preeminently, state-of-the-art AI detection methods are discussed. An in-depth taxonomy based on manual expert hierarchies and an AI-generated dendrogram are provided, thus settling DDoS categorization ambiguities. An important discussion on available datasets follows, covering data format options and their role in training AI detection methods together with adversarial training and examples augmentation. Beyond detection, AI based mitigation techniques are surveyed as well. Finally, multiple open research directions are proposed.

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Cite this paper

@article{apostu2025detecting,
  title  = {Detecting and Mitigating DDoS Attacks with AI: A Survey},
  author = {Alexandru Apostu and Silviu Gheorghe and Andrei Hîji and Nicolae Cleju and Andrei Pătraşcu and Cristian Rusu and Radu Ionescu and Paul Irofti},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.17867},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17867v1}
}

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