Abstract:This paper focuses on Http-Flood DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack and proposes a detection scheme based on large deviation statistical model. The detection scheme characterizes the user access behavior with its Web-pages accessed and adopts the type method quantizing user’s access behavior. Based on this quantization method, this study analyzes the deviation of ongoing user’s empirical access behavior from the website’s priori one with large deviation statistical model, and detects Http-Flood DDoS with large deviation probability. This paper also provides preliminary simulation regarding the efficiency of the scheme, and the simulation results show that the large deviation of most normal Web surfers is larger than 10-36, yet, the attacker’s is smaller than 10-40. Thus, this scheme is promising to detect Http-Flood DDoS. Specifically, the scheme can achieve 0.6% false positive and 97.5% true positive with detection threshold of 10-60. And compared with the existing detection methods, this detection scheme can outperform them in detection performance. In particular, this scheme can improve the true positive ratio 0.6% over the transition probability based detection scheme with the false positive below 5%.