Abstract:By sending large amount of data flows from multiple sites, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks target the victims. Thus, there is a demand to implement number of DDoS defense techniques all together and collaboratively on many nodes, especially on where there is a need to maintain round-the-clock Internet connectivity. The security mechanism works on a probabilistic basis that is based on the detection of illegitimate traffic and then to discard it, that forced a specific number of legitimate packets to be fallout in the process and reducing the overall quality of service. In this paper a Distributed Agent Based technique for detecting DDoS Attacks in wireless LAN has been proposed. It is fully distributed and provides an early warning when pre-attack activities are detected, using trust mechanisms. From the simulation results it has been found that the proposed distributed agent based architecture achieves high throughput with low packet drop, by detecting and isolating the attack traffic flows.