Effect of Malicious Traffic on the Network
Kun-Chan Lan, Alefiya Hussain and Debojyoti Dutta
USC/Information Sciences Institute
Citation
Kun-Chan Lan, Alefiya Hussain and Debojyoti Dutta. Effect of Malicious Traffic on the Network. Proceedings of the PAM Workshop (Apr. 2003). [PDF] [alt PDF]
Abstract
The Internet has seen a continuous rise in malicious traffic including DDoS and worm attacks. In this paper, we study the effect of malicious traffic on the background traffic by gathering traces from two different locations. We show that the malicious traffic causes the increases of DNS latency by 230% and web latency by 30% even on highly over-provisioned links. Using a packet-level simulations based on an empirically derived model of the worm, we demonstrate that the effect of worm- infected hosts can be disastrous when they trigger a DDoS attack.Bibtex Citation
@inproceedings{Lan03a,
author = {Lan, Kun-Chan and Hussain, Alefiya and Dutta, Debojyoti},
title = {Effect of Malicious Traffic on the Network},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the PAM Workshop},
year = {2003},
sortdate = {2003-08-01},
project = {ant, nocredit, saman},
jsubject = {network_security},
publisher = {NLANR},
month = apr,
jlocation = {johnh: pafile},
keywords = {DDoS/Worm traffic on regular traffic},
url = {https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Lan03a.html},
pdfurl = {https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Lan03a.pdf},
otherurl = {https://ant.isi.edu/%7ehussain/pubs/Lan03a.pdf},
myorganization = {USC/Information Sciences Institute}
}