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by Daniel Adkins, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Adrian Perrig, and Ion Stoica
Abstract:
One of the vexing problems faced by end-hosts in the Internet is denial-of-service (DoS) caused by IP packet floods. IP packet flooding is possible because end-hosts have no choice but to receive packets addressed to them. The main thesis of this paper is that end-hosts are in the best position to detect DoS attacks and thus should be \em given control to respond to such attacks. We present two solutions that achieve the following properties by giving end-hosts more control over which packets they receive.
Reference:
Taming IP Packet Flooding Attacks. Daniel Adkins, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Adrian Perrig, and Ion Stoica. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II) 2003.
Bibtex Entry:
@InProceedings{AdLaPeSt2003,
    author =       {Daniel Adkins and Karthik Lakshminarayanan and Adrian Perrig and Ion Stoica},
    title =        {Taming {IP} Packet Flooding Attacks},
    url = {/publications/papers/hotnets-II.pdf},
    booktitle =    {Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II)},
    year =         2003,
    month =        nov,
    abstract =     {One of the vexing problems faced by end-hosts in the Internet is
denial-of-service (DoS) caused by IP packet floods.  IP packet
flooding is possible because end-hosts have no choice but to receive
packets addressed to them.  The main thesis of this paper is that
end-hosts are in the best position to detect DoS attacks and thus
should be {\em given control to respond to such attacks}.  We present
two solutions that achieve the following properties by giving
end-hosts more control over which packets they receive.}
}