Evaluation of QoS-compliant overlays under denial of service attacks

  • Authors:
  • Jawwad Shamsi;Monica Brockmeyer

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan;Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

  • Venue:
  • SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper describes the use of simulation to study the effect of disruptive network behavior on Internet-based QoS-compliant overlay networks. The use of simulation permits assessment of overlays under network perturbations such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and flash crowds. Such conditions may occur frequently on the Internet but cannot be used for evaluation through observation of the Internet. We constructed QoS compliant overlays using QoSMap, an overlay construction scheme which constructs overlays for applications with strict QoS requirements. Using ns-2 based simulation; we launched DoS attack in the overlays and assessed their capability in meeting QoS requirements under severe network behavior. With 10 different network traffic conditions, network bursts and HTTP-delay traffic as traffic sources, five different overlay topologies, and latency and loss rate as QoS constraints, we noted that even under network attacks, QoSMap constructed overlays were able to meet applications requirements overlays of high QoS and long lifetime. This paper provides insight into the use of such simulation in general to study the effectiveness of overlay construction and other higher level applications to be resilient to destructive network perturbations.