DoS Defense in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks

Pete C. Perlegos

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-04-1309
March 2004

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2004/CSD-04-1309.pdf

Denial of service (DoS) attacks are a large and increasing threat to the Internet community. In this paper, we propose using a distributed approach to DoS defense. Our architecture leverages the properties of a wide-area overlay network to isolate clusters of attackers while denying access to a minimal amount of legitimate users. This is done by collaborating with other members of a structured peer-to-peer network, which is inherently collaborative. Our results show that our approach is effective at both detection and suppression of a DoS attack.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Perlegos:CSD-04-1309,
    Author = {Perlegos, Pete C.},
    Title = {DoS Defense in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {2004},
    Month = {Mar},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2004/5588.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-04-1309},
    Abstract = {Denial of service (DoS) attacks are a large and increasing threat to the Internet community. In this paper, we propose using a distributed approach to DoS defense. Our architecture leverages the properties of a wide-area overlay network to isolate clusters of attackers while denying access to a minimal amount of legitimate users. This is done by collaborating with other members of a structured peer-to-peer network, which is inherently collaborative. Our results show that our approach is effective at both detection and suppression of a DoS attack.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%T DoS Defense in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2004
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