SDN-SYN PoW: Intent-Aware Adaptive SDN Defense with PoW against Multi-Domain SYN Floods

The stability of Internet services is persistently challenged by the escalating scale of volumetric TCP SYN floods, as conventional defenses like SYN Cookies fail by exacerbating bandwidth depletion under modern attacks. This paper introduces SDN-SYN PoW, a novel defense architecture that...