Can We Beat DDoS Attacks in Clouds?

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 25; no. 9; pp. 2245 - 2254
• Main Authors: Shui Yu, Yonghong Tian, Song Guo, Wu, Dapeng Oliver
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Analytical models; Cloud computing; Computer crime; Computer networks; DDoS attacks; Denial of service attacks; Dynamics; Financing; Mathematical model; Mathematical models; mitigation; Quality of service; Queueing analysis; resource investment; Resource scheduling; Servers; system modelling

Cloud is becoming a dominant computing platform. Naturally, a question that arises is whether we can beat notorious DDoS attacks in a cloud environment. Researchers have demonstrated that the essential issue of DDoS attack and defense is resource competition between defenders and attackers. A cloud...