Slow TCAM Exhaustion DDoS Attack

• Published in: ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection Vol. 502; pp. 17 - 31
• Main Authors: Pascoal, Túlio A., Dantas, Yuri G., Fonseca, Iguatemi E., Nigam, Vivek
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017; Springer International Publishing
• Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Subjects: DDoS attacks; Low-Rate attacks; SDN; Selective defenses

Software Defined Networks (SDN) facilitate network management by decoupling the data plane which forwards packets using efficient switches from the control plane by leaving the decisions on how packets should be forwarded to a (centralized) controller. However, due to limitations on the number of fo...