Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Defending Against DDoS Attacks

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a form of attack that seeks to make a network resource unavailable due to overloading the resource or machine with an overwhelming number of packets, thereby crashing or severely slowing the performance of the resource. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a large scale DoS attack which is distributed in the Internet. Every computer which has access to the Internet can behave as an attacker. Typically bandwidth depletion can be categorized as either a flood or an amplification attack. Flood attacks can be done by generating ICMP packets or UDP packets in which it can utilize stationary or random variable ports. Smurf and Fraggle attacks are used for amplification attacks. DDoS Smurf attacks are an example of an amplification attack where the attacker sends packets to a network amplifier with the return address spoofed to the victim's IP address. This book presents new research and methodologies along with a proposed algorithm for prevention of DoS attacks that has been written based on cryptographic concepts such as birthday attacks to estimate the rate of attacks generated and passed along the routers. Consequently, attackers would be identified and prohibited from sending spam traffic to the server which can cause DDoS attacks. Due to the prevalence of DoS attacks, there has been a lot of research conducted on how to detect them and prevent them. The authors of this short format title provide their research results on providing an effective solution to DoS attacks, including introduction of the new algorithm that can be implemented in order to deny DoS attacks.
- A comprehensive study on the basics of network security
- Provides a wide revision on client puzzle theory
- An experimental model to mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks

Dr. Iraj Sadegh Amiri received his B. Sc (Applied Physics) from Public University of Urmia, Iran in 2001 and a gold medalist M. Sc. in optics from University Technology Malaysia (UTM), in 2009. He was awarded a PhD degree in photonics in Jan 2014. He has published well over 350 academic publications since the 2012s in optical soliton communications, laser physics, photonics, optics and nanotechnology engineering. Currently he is a senior lecturer in University of Malaysia (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.M. R. K. Soltanian received B.Eng in Electronics from Azad University of Najafabad, Iran in 2001and master of telecommunication engineering from Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. He is currently a postdoc research fellow in Photonics engineering in photonics research centre (PRC) University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. He has many high quality publications in nature, IEEE, and OSA publishers. He has work experience in networking and network security.

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Related WorksChapter 3 Problem Solving, Investigating Ideas, and SolutionsChapter 4 Results and DiscussionsChapter 5 Conclusions and Recommendations