Removing SYN flooding in TCP/IP Network

Abstract

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the most popular transport layer communication protocol for the Internet. It was originally designed for wired networks, where Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are very common. This article analyzes the TCP SYN flood (a.k.a. SYN flood) Issue in TCP, that is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attack that exploits part of the normal TCP three-way handshake to consume resources on the targeted server and render it unresponsive. At the end it proposes solution for TCP SYN flood.