NBHU-based method to counter quiet DDoS attacks

The Quiet DDoS attack becomes one of the most severely threat to the network safety, because this kind of attack completely adopts legal TCP flow while distributing its destination IP to evade various countermeasures deployed in the network. However, the high distributed degree of the destination IP becomes one characteristics of the attack. However, we think this characteristic make partially of the attack flow not match the behavior habit of network users. Inspired by this viewpoint, we propose a novel method to counter the Quiet DDoS attack based on the NBHU (network behavior habit of users). Furthermore, we carry on simulation of our method using NS2 platform, and the results show that this method can reduce the attack performance.