Scalable multicast based filtering and tracing framework for defeating distributed DoS attacks

  • Authors:
  • Jangwon Lee;Gustavo de Veciana

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present a distributed scalable framework to support on- demand filtering and tracing services for defeating distributed denial of service attacks. Our filtering mechanism is designed to quickly identify a set of boundary filter locations so that attack packets might be dropped as close as possible to their origin(s). We argue that precisely identifying the origins of an attack is not achievable when there is only a partial deployment of tracing nodes--as is likely to be the case in practice. Thus we present a tracing mechanism which can identify sets of candidate nodes containing attack origins. Both mechanisms leverage multicasting services to achieve scalable, responsive and robust operation, and operate with a partial and incremental deployment.Performance evaluations of proposed approaches on both real and synthetic topologies show that a small coverage of filtering and tracing components throughout a network can be effective at blocking and localizing attacks.