Detecting BHP Flood Attacks in OBS Networks: A Machine Learning Prospective

The Optical Bust Switching (OBS) network has become the most promising switching technology for building the next generation of internet backbone infrastructure. However, an OBS network still faces a number of security and Quality of Service (QoS) challenges, particularly from Burst Header Packet (BHP) flood attacks. If a source node (ingress) becomes compromised by an attacker, overloading the network with malicious BHPs, the network resources will be reserved without proper utilization.