An Implementation of Feature Selection for Detecting LOIC-based DDoS Attack

Abstract

Machine learning method is efficient and effective in detecting DDoS attacks, but it all begins from identifying and selecting their important features. This paper presents an implementation of feature selection for DDoS detection based on Random Forest method. In our implementation, we use a LOIC software flood DDoS requests to a target computer, then control the target to extract the features from the captured IP packets, and finally calculate their Gini feature importance and ranking for subsequent feature selection.