Abstract

While the DETER testbed provides a safe environment and basic tools for security experimentation, researchers face a significant challenge in assembling the testbed pieces and tools into realistic and complete experimental scenarios. In this paper, we describe our work on automating experimentation for distributed denial-ofservice attacks. We developed the following automation tools:(1) the Experimenter’s Workbench that provides a graphical user interface, tools for topology, traffic and monitoring setup and tools for statistics collection, visualization and processing,(2) a DDoS benchmark suite that contains a set of diverse and comprehensive attack scenarios,(3) the Experiment Generator that combines chosen AS-level and edge-level topologies, legitimate traffic and a set of attacks into DETER-compatible scripts. Jointly, these tools facilitate easy experimentation even for novice users.

Date

August 6, 2007

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Brett Wilson, Alefiya Hussain, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Stephen Schwab, VA Centreville

Journal

Proc. of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test. USENIX Association