Real-time Pipeline Reconfiguration of P4 Programmable Switches to Efficiently Detect and Mitigate DDoS Attacks

In this work we demonstrate the integration of P4 enabled switches with high level AI techniques with the aim to improve efficiency and performance of DDoS detection and mitigation. Powerful ML-based strategies are adopted only when a suspicious behaviour is occurring in the network, and its activation is triggered by a coarser-grained and lightweight strategy fully executable in the data plane.