Distributed change-point detection of DDoS attacks: experimental results on DETER testbed

  • Authors:
  • Yu Chen;Kai Hwang;Wei-Shinn Ku

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY, Binghamton, NY;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

  • Venue:
  • DETER Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

It is highly desired to detect the DDoS flooding attacks at an early stage in order to launch effective countermeasures timely. We have developed a distributed change-point detection scheme to detect flooding type DDoS attacks over multiple network domains. The approach is to monitor the spatiotemporal pattern of the attack traffic. We have simulated the new defense system on the DETER testbed. The new scheme is proven scalable to cover hundreds of ISP-controlled network domains. With 4 network domains working collaboratively, we achieved on the DETER testbed a 98% detection rate with less than 1% false alarms.