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CN
2008
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A router-based technique to mitigate reduction of quality (RoQ) attacks
We propose a router-based technique to mitigate the stealthy reduction of quality (RoQ) attacks at the routers in the Internet. The RoQ attacks have been shown to impair the QoS s...
Amey Shevtekar, Nirwan Ansari
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Reduction of quality (RoQ) attacks on Internet end-systems
— Current computing systems depend on adaptation mechanisms to ensure that they remain in quiescent operating regions. These regions are often defined using efficiency, fairnes...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs
—One key adaptation mechanism often deployed in networking and computing systems is dynamic load balancing. The goal from employing dynamic load balancers is to ensure that the o...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
ICC
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Spectral Analysis of TCP Flows for Defense Against Reduction-of-Quality Attacks
Abstract - The RoQ (Reduction-of-Quality) attacks are lowrate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems stealthily but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are...
Yu Chen, Kai Hwang
ICN
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Assessment of Vulnerability of Content Adaptation Mechanisms to RoQ Attacks
Abstract— Current computing systems employ different mechanisms to deal with overload conditions. Of those widely deployed are content adaptation mechanisms whereby the quality l...
Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros, Ibrah...