Distributed Denial of Service: Taxonomies of Attacks, Tools, and Countermeasures

By Stephen M. Specht, Ruby B. Lee. Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (ISCA), 2004

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Amplification Hell: Revisiting Network Protocols for DDoS Abuse (2014, background): “There are several forms of DoS attacks [30, 18], most of which are well-documented and used by attackers to disturb services for years.”
An Overview of IP Flow-Based Intrusion Detection (2010, methodology): “A simple example of the use of sketches in DoS attacks is the detection of SYN Flooding attacks [53], as described in Gao   [52].”
A Survey of Defense Mechanisms Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Flooding Attacks (2013, background): “We review various DDoS ﬂooding incidents of each category, some of which have been well reviewed/analyzed in [1], [2], [31]–[34], [36] and the rest are recent trends of DDoS ﬂooding attacks.”