A SIGNALING ARCHITECTURE AGAINST DOS ATTACKS

Ahmad Fadlallah, Ahmed Serhrouchni

2005

Abstract

Denial of service (DoS) attacks figure highly among the dangers that face the Internet. Many research studies deal with DoS, proposing models and/or architectures to stop this threat. The proposed solutions vary between prevention, detection, filtering and traceback of the attack. The latter (attack traceback) constitutes an important part of the DoS defense. The most complex issue it has to face is related to the fact that attackers often used spoofed or incorrect IP addresses, thus disguising the true origin. In this work, we propose a signaling architecture and a security-oriented signaling protocol named 3SP (Simple Security Signaling Protocol). This solution makes it easier to trace both the DoS and other types of attack back to their sources; it is simple, robust and efficient against IP spoofing, and thus constitutes a novel and efficient approach to deal with the attack traceback problem.

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Fadlallah A. and Serhrouchni A. (2005). A SIGNALING ARCHITECTURE AGAINST DOS ATTACKS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-32-5, pages 216-221. DOI: 10.5220/0001415702160221


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@conference{icete05,
author={Ahmad Fadlallah and Ahmed Serhrouchni},
title={A SIGNALING ARCHITECTURE AGAINST DOS ATTACKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2005},
pages={216-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001415702160221},
isbn={972-8865-32-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - A SIGNALING ARCHITECTURE AGAINST DOS ATTACKS
SN - 972-8865-32-5
AU - Fadlallah A.
AU - Serhrouchni A.
PY - 2005
SP - 216
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0001415702160221