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DDoS attacks have remained a threat to the availability of the contemporary networked systems because of their magnitude, diversity, and the changing attack tactics. Although deep learning-based traffic classifiers have a high detection accuracy, practical implementation is commonly based on predetermined decision thresholds, so they are not as adaptive to the dynamism of networks. The thesis in this paper is that a large classification separability does not always indicate that detection decisions can be controlled. We introduce a causal multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) model to detect DDoS, wherein the reason of several monitoring agents to detect DDoS is based on traffic observations and rationalize the selection of detection decisions with the aid of coordination of rewards. It is then trained using the CICDDoS2019 dataset to develop a strong baseline classifier and then performs a threshold sensitivity analysis, which shows the drawbacks of using a fixed thresholding, even when the AUC is almost perfect. The suggested MARL framework presents a formulation of rewards in which all agents are explicitly balanced with recall, false-positive cost, and causal agreement. Massive experiments show that MARL in a causal manner is much more robust to per-attack and more decision controllable than a directly threshold-based detection. The findings represent the significance of decision-level intelligence outside the traditional classification pipelines to viable DDoS defense.
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"Beyond Static Thresholding: Causal Multi-Agent Decision Control for DDoS Detection", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2456-3315, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no.c277-c288, April-2026, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2604306.pdf
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2456-3315 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.14 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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