A Distributed Self-Organizing Map for DoS attack detection

Self-Organizing Map (SOM), one of data mining techniques, has been used as a tool to detect DoS attacks. However, existing SOM-based approaches have the potential drawbacks, the limited detection throughput and vulnerability to DoS attack. Therefore, this paper proposes a new form of SOM, Distributed SOM (DSOM), and shows the feasibility of DSOM through comprehensive experiments.