Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) flooding attacks are one of the biggest concerns for
security professionals. DDoS flooding attacks are typically explicit attempts to disrupt …

This article presents a survey of denial of service attacks and the methods that have been
proposed for defense against these attacks. In this survey, we analyze the design decisions …

Distributed denial-of-service is one kind of the most highlighted and most important attacks
of today's cyberworld. With simple but extremely powerful attack mechanisms, it introduces …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global ecosystem of information and communication
technologies aimed at connecting any type of object (thing), at any time, and in any place, to …

DDoS defense today relies on expensive and proprietary hardware appliances deployed at
fixed locations. This introduces key limitations with respect to flexibility (eg, complex routing …

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a rapidly growing problem. The multitude and variety
of both the attacks and the defense approaches is overwhelming. This paper presents two …

To date, realistic ISP topologies have not been accessible to the research community,
leaving work that depends on topology on an uncertain footing. In this paper, we present …

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitute one of the major threats and among the hardest
security problems in today's Internet. Of particular concern are Distributed Denial of Service …

We present the Crossfire attack--a powerful attack that degrades and often cuts off network
connections to a variety of selected server targets (eg, servers of an enterprise, a city, a …

Pulse-wave DDoS attacks are a new type of volumetric attack formed by short, high-rate
traffic pulses. Such attacks target the Achilles' heel of state-of-the-art DDoS defenses: their …