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 developing a set of sampled and comprehensive benchmark scenarios, and a workbench for experiments involving denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The benchmark scenarios are developed by sampling features of attacks, legitimate traffic and topologies from the real Internet. We have also developed a measure of DoS impact on network services to evaluate the severity of an attack and the effectiveness of a proposed defense. The benchmarks are integrated with the testbed via the experimenter's workbench - a collection of traffic generation tools, topology and defense library, experiment control scripts and a graphical user interface. Benchmark …

Date

May 21, 2007

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Songjie Wei, Alefiya Hussain, Brett Wilson, Roshan Thomas, Stephen Schwab, Sonia Fahmy, Roman Chertov, Peter Reiher

Conference

2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities

Pages

1-7

Publisher

IEEE