Lessons for autonomic services from the design of an anonymous dos protection overlay

  • Authors:
  • David Ellis;Ian Wakeman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sussex;University of Sussex

  • Venue:
  • AN'06 Proceedings of the First IFIP TC6 international conference on Autonomic Networking
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we report on the design and implementation of a Denial of Service protection overlay, and draw lessons for autonomous services. Our approach is novel in that each node is only aware of a subset of the other nodes within the overlay; the routing topology of the overlay is hidden from internal and external nodes and the overlay uses a distributed monitoring and trust system to detect misbehaving nodes. In meeting these design goals, we have had to move beyond the normal approaches to designing self-configuring and self-monitoring services, and we highlight these issues as being important for the design of future multi-organisation systems.