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On Modeling And Mitigating New Breed Of Dos Attacks, Amey Bhaskar Shevtekar
On Modeling And Mitigating New Breed Of Dos Attacks, Amey Bhaskar Shevtekar
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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks pose serious threats to the Internet, exerting in tremendous impact on our daily lives that are heavily dependent on the good health of the Internet. This dissertation aims to achieve two objectives:1) to model new possibilities of the low rate DoS attacks; 2) to develop effective mitigation mechanisms to counter the threat from low rate DoS attacks.
A new stealthy DDoS attack model referred to as the "quiet" attack is proposed in this dissertation. The attack traffic consists of TCP traffic only. Widely used botnets in today's various attacks and newly introduced network feedback control …