Controlling high bandwidth aggregates in the network

The current Internet infrastructure has very few built-in protection mechanisms and is therefore vulnerable to attacks and failures. In particular, recent events have illustrated the Internet's vulnerability to both denial of service (DoS) attacks and flash crowds in which one or more links in the network (or servers at the edge of the network) become severely congested. In both flash crowds and DoS attacks the congestion is not due to a single flow, nor to a general increase in traffic, but to a well-defined subset of the traffic

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CCR
• Authors: Ratul Mahajan, Steven M. Bellovin, Sally Floyd, John Ioannidis, Vern Paxson, Scott Shenker
• Keywords: Built-in Protection Mechanisms, CCR 2002, Cooperative Pushback Mechanism, Current Internet Infrastructure