Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks with Dynamic Resource Pricing

  • Authors:
  • D. Mankins;R. Krishnan;C. Boyd;J. Zao;M. Frentz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACSAC '01 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exploit theacute imbalance between client and server workloads tocause devastation to the service providers. We propose adistributed gateway architecture and a payment protocolthat imposes dynamically changing prices on bothnetwork, server, and information resources in order topush some cost of initiating service requests - in termsof monetary payments and/or computational burdens -back onto the requesting clients. By employing differentprice and purchase functions, the architecture canprovide service quality differentiation and furthermore,select good client behavior and discriminate againstadversarial behavior. If confirmed by additional experiments,judicious partitioning of resources using differentpricing functions can improve overall service survivability.