Abstract

Denial of service attacks are an increasing threat to the Internet’s availability and reliability. To evaluate a variety of defenses proposed against this threat we must be able to precisely measure impact of an ongoing attack on a network. The effectiveness of a defense can then be calculated with regard to how quickly and how completely it eliminates this DoS impact. We propose a DoS impact measure which divides legitimate traffic in the network into higher-level user tasks, called transactions, and classifies these transactions into application-level categories. For each category, we define quality-of-service requirements that have to be met for a satisfactory service. DoS impact is then measured as a percentage of transactions in each category that have not met their QoS requirements.

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation, 2006

year

2006

publication date

2006/6

authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Alefiya Hussain, Steven Schwab, Calvin Ko

link

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a1a8307df404d5b6ddb6003cfcd17d640a28d986

resource_link

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a1a8307df404d5b6ddb6003cfcd17d640a28d986

journal

Proceedings of the DETER community workshop on cyber security experimentation