In today’s world, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) plays a significant role in the advancement of next-generation network architecture that offers vast control to the network operators. However, the control layer is vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks where DDoS is one of the most powerful and devastating cyber-attacks. Thus, the development of a DDoS attack detection mechanism is very essential since these kinds of attacks have a direct impact on the overall performance of the SDN. In this paper, a new robust Tuned support vector machine-based DDoS attack detection methodology has been proposed to categorize the benign traffic from DDoS attack traffic on the SDN. Primarily, the network is created with controller and OpenFlow switch and the communication can be carried out through secure channels among different benign users and also attackers. Afterward, the multi-characteristic values are extracted by the effective extraction strategy which consists of the six-tuple characteristic values matrix. Finally, the tuned classifier has been implemented with the aid of optimization algorithm for differentiating the abnormal traffic and the normal traffic. The performance results manifest that the proposed detection framework achieves a higher accuracy of 98% and precision of 99% when compared with existing classifiers.
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