Quantifying Distributed System Stability through Simulation: A Case Study of an Agent-Based System for Flow Reconstruction of DDoS Attacks

We investigate the stability properties of a novel agent-based system for the detection of network bandwidth-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The proposed system provides a description of the structure of flows which comprise the DDoS attack. In doing so, it facilitates DDoS mitig...

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Published in2010 International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation pp. 312 - 317
Main Authors Demir, O., Khan, B.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2010
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agent-based
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Computational modeling
Computer crime
Computer science
Computer simulation
distributed denial of service
flow reconstruction
Intelligent systems
IP networks
simulation
Stability
Telecommunication traffic
Traffic control
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Summary:We investigate the stability properties of a novel agent-based system for the detection of network bandwidth-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The proposed system provides a description of the structure of flows which comprise the DDoS attack. In doing so, it facilitates DDoS mitigation at or near attack traffic sources. The constituent agents within the system operate at the inter autonomous system (AS) level, comprising a distributed collection of IP-layer network taps which self-organize in response to attack flows. We formalize the notion of stability for the proposed system, and show how we can use simulation to identify regions of instability within the system's parameter space. We then modify our system design to circumvent the uncovered singularities, and demonstrate the efficacy and tradeoffs implicit in our redesigned system.
ISBN:1424459842
9781424459841
ISSN:2166-0662
2166-0670
DOI:10.1109/ISMS.2010.90