An Inter-domain Collaboration Scheme to Remedy DDoS Attacks in Computer Networks

Simpson, Steven and Shirazi, Syed Noorulhassan and Marnerides, Angelos and Jouet, Simon and Pezaros, Dimitrios and Hutchison, David (2018) An Inter-domain Collaboration Scheme to Remedy DDoS Attacks in Computer Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 15 (3). pp. 879-893. ISSN 1932-4537

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Abstract

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to trouble network operators and service providers, and with increasing intensity. Effective response to DDoS can be slow (because of manual diagnosis and interaction) and potentially self-defeating (as indiscriminate filtering accomplishes a likely goal of the attacker), and this is the result of the discrepancy between the service provider's flow-based, application-level view of traffic and the network operator's packet-based, network-level view and limited functionality. Furthermore, a network required to take action may be in an Autonomous System (AS) several AS-hops away from the service, so it has no direct relationship with the service on whose behalf it acts. This paper presents Antidose, a means of interaction between a vulnerable peripheral service and an indirectly related AS that allows the AS to confidently deploy local filtering with discrimination under the control of the remote service. We implement the core filtering mechanism of Antidose, and provide an analysis of it to demonstrate that conscious attacks against the mechanism will not expose the AS to additional attacks. We present a performance evaluation to show that the mechanism is operationally feasible in the emerging trend of operators' willingness to increase the programmability of their hardware with SDN technologies such as OpenFlow, as well as to act to mitigate attacks on downstream customers.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1705
Subjects:
?? distributed denial-of-serviceantidosemitigationbpfabricnetwork securitynetwork resiliencebandwidth saturation attacksnetwork managementinter-domain collaborationcomputer networks and communicationselectrical and electronic engineering ??
ID Code:
124746
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Deposited On:
25 Apr 2018 08:24
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Yes
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Published
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25 Mar 2024 00:31