Software-Defined Anti-DDoS - Is It the Next Step?

The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are incessantly growing problem for Internet users, despite numerous research works on DDoS protection methods that have been already done. This paper presents an opinion on future evolution of anti-DDoS techniques. It gives a short survey of resent ideas and proposed solutions to the DDoS problem. Next it sketches an architectural approach based on Software-Defined Networking paradigm and concludes with some guidance for further works. We expect to provide inspiring ideas for research and development of anti-DDoS systems, such systems which provide better protection against DDoS plague, and raise the cost of attacks deterring perpetrators.