@inproceedings{3cc3d54f62d4427d86dc5d0825fa5714,
title = "PacketScore: Statistics-based overload control against distributed denial-of-service attacks",
abstract = "Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a critical threat to the Internet. Currently, most ISPs merely rely on manual detection of DDoS attacks after which offline fine-grain traffic analysis is performed and new filtering rules are installed manually to the routers. The need of human intervention results in poor response time and fails to protect the victim before severe damages are realized. The expressiveness of existing filtering rules is also too limited and rigid when compared to the ever-evolving characteristics of the attacking packets. Recently, we have proposed a DDoS defense architecture that supports distributed detection and automated on-line attack characterization. In this paper, we will focus on the design and evaluation of the automated attack characterization, selective packet discarding and overload control portion of the proposed architecture. Our key idea is to prioritize packets based on a per-packet score which estimates the legitimacy of a packet given the attribute values it carries. Special considerations are made to ensure that the scheme is amenable to high-speed hardware implementation. Once the score of a packet is computed, we perform score-based selective packet discarding where the dropping threshold is dynamically adjusted based on (1) the score distribution of recent incoming packets and (2) the current level of overload of the system.",
keywords = "Denial-of-Service Attack, Overload Control, Security, Selective Packet Discarding, Simulations, System design, Traffic characterization",
author = "Yoohwan Kim and Lau, {Wing Cheong} and Chuah, {Mooi Choo} and Chao, {H. Jonathan}",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354679",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0780383559",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM",
pages = "2594--2604",
booktitle = "IEEE INFOCOM 2004 - Conference on Computer Communications - Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies",
note = "IEEE INFOCOM 2004 - Conference on Computer Communications - Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies ; Conference date: 07-03-2004 Through 11-03-2004",
}