Formal Framework for Modeling and Simulation of DDoS Attacks Based on Teamwork of Hackers-Agents

  • Authors:
  • Igor Kotenko;Alexey Alexeev;Evgeny Man'kov

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IAT '03 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The modern Internet is at rather dangerous stage of its life cycle.Taking into account a today's level of computer network security,the Internet can simply cease to work, if the current tendency ofgrowth of number and capacity of distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attacks to root servers will proceed. In the paper wediscuss that in order to combat DDoS, the computer community needsto develop a strong theoretical basis upon which to hardeninformation systems and infrastructures so they can survive suchattacks. We introduce an agent-based formal framework for modelingand simulation of DDoS attacks. The framework and software tooldeveloped can be used for conducting experiments to analyzecomputer network vulnerabilities and evaluate efficiency andeffectiveness of security policy.