Subject	Cryptography and Cybersecurity/Artificial Intelligence
Specific subject area	Software-Defined Networking (SDN), DDoS Detection
Type of data	Tabular,CSV
Data collection	The dataset was generated in a controlled SDN testbed environment using Mininet(v2.3.0), a network emulation tool. Normal traffic was captured from real-world internet browsing sessions via Google Chrome and recorded using Wireshark(v3.0.2). Hping3(v3.0.0-alpha-2) tool was used to simulate TCP SYN flood DDoS attack in SDN.
Data source location	Institution: Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University City/Town/Region: Katra/Jammu & Kashmir Country: India Latitude: 32.940391° Longitude: 74.954906°
Data accessibility	Repository name: Mendeley Data Data identification number: 10.17632/236bd4cjmk.2 Direct URL to data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/236bd4cjmk/2
Related research article	‘none’