Abstract

To date, the measurement of user-perceived degradation of quality of service during denial of service (DoS) attacks remained an elusive goal. Current approaches mostly rely on lower level traffic measurements such as throughput, utilization, loss rate, and latency. They fail to monitor all traffic parameters that signal service degradation for diverse applications, and to map application quality-of-service (QoS) requirements into specific parameter thresholds. To objectively evaluate an attack's impact on network services, its severity and the effectiveness of a potential defense, we need precise, quantitative and comprehensive DoS impact metrics that are applicable to any test scenario.
We propose a series of DoS impact metrics that measure the QoS experienced by end users during an attack. The proposed metrics consider QoS requirements for a range of applications and map them into measurable traffic parameters …

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science, 8-es, 2007

year

2007

publication date

2007/6/13

authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Alefiya Hussain, Brett Wilson, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Wei-Min Yao, Stephen Schwab

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1281700.1281708

resource_link

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/expcs07/papers/8-mirkovic.pdf

book

Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science

pages

8-es