Denial of Service White Papers
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
Overview Recently, several papers have studied the possibility of shrinking buffer sizes in Internet core routers to just a few dozen packets under certain constraints. If proven right, these results can open doors to building all-optical routers, since a major bottleneck in building such routers is the lack of large optical memories. However, reducing buffer sizes might pose new security risks: it is much easier to fill up tiny buffers, and thus organizing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks seems easier in a network with tiny buffers. To the best of the knowledge, such risks have not been studied before; all the focus has been on performance issues such as throughput, drop rate, and flow completion times.
| Publisher | University of Toronto | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2009 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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