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Scalable Schemes Against Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks, Kishori Nanduri
Scalable Schemes Against Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks, Kishori Nanduri
LSU Master's Theses
Defense against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is one of the primary concerns on the Internet today. DDoS attacks are difficult to prevent because of the open, interconnected nature of the Internet and its underlying protocols, which can be used in several ways to deny service. Attackers hide their identity by using third parties such as private chat channels on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). They also insert false return IP address, spoofing, in a packet which makes it difficult for the victim to determine the packet's origin. We propose three novel and realistic traceback mechanisms which offer many advantages …