Abstract

Denial-of-service (DoS) research community lacks accurate metrics to evaluate an attack's impact on network services, its severity and the effectiveness of a potential defense. We propose several DoS impact metrics that measure the quality of service experienced by end users during an attack, and compare these measurements to application-specific thresholds. Our metrics are ideal for testbed experimentation, since necessary traffic parameters are extracted from packet traces gathered during an experiment.

Date

June 12, 2007

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Alefiya Hussain, Brett Willson, Sonia Fahmy, Wei-Min Yao, Peter Reiher, Stephen Schwab, Roshan Thomas

Book

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems

Pages

357-358