Abstract
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) is a big threat to the security and stability of Internet-based services today. Among the recent advanced application-layer DDoS attacks, the Very Short Intermittent DDoS (VSI-DDoS) is the attack, which can bypass existing detection systems and significantly degrade the QoS experienced by users of web services. However, in order for the VSI-DDoS attack to work effectively, bots participating in the attack should be tightly synchronized, an assumption that is difficult to be met in reality. In this paper, we conducted a quantitative analysis to understand how a minimal deviation from perfect synchronization in botnets affects the performance and effectiveness of the VSI-DDoS attack. We found that VSI-DDoS became substantially less effective. That is, it lost 85.7% in terms of effectiveness under about 90ms synchronization inaccuracy, which is a very small inaccuracy under normal network conditions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018 |
Editors | Robert H. Deng, Stephen Marsh, Jason Nurse, Rongxing Lu, Sakir Sezer, Paul Miller, Liqun Chen, Kieran McLaughlin, Ali Ghorbani |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538674932 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 29 Oct 2018 |
Event | 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Aug 2018 → 30 Aug 2018 |
Publication series
Name | 2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018 |
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Conference
Conference | 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Period | 28/08/18 → 30/08/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 IEEE.
Keywords
- DDoS
- evaluation
- time synchronization