An optimistic acknowledgment (opt-ack) is an acknowledgment sent by a misbehaving client for a data segment that it has not received. Whereas previous work has focused on opt-ack ...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have continued to evolve and they impact the availability of Internet infrastructure. Many researchers in the field of network security and system ...
Abstract—Gray hole attacks (a.k.a selective forwarding attacks) are a special case of denial of service (DoS) attack, where a misbehaving mesh router just forwards a subset of th...
Abstract—We introduce a game-theoretic framework for reasoning about bandwidth attacks, a common form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In particular, our traffic...
Mayday is an architecture that combines overlay networks with lightweight packet filtering to defend against denial of service attacks. The overlay nodes perform client authentic...