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Available viahttp://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2002-26
Submitted on 28th of May 2002
Author Daswani, Neil; Garcia-Molina, Hector
Title Query-Flood DoS Attacks in Gnutella
Date of publication 19th of May 2002
Citation Daswani, Neil; Garcia-Molina, Hector. Query-Flood DoS Attacks in Gnutella,
Number of pages 20
Language English
Project Stanford InfoLab; Database Group; Digital Libraries
Type Preprint
Subject group Computer Science; Distributed Systems; Query processing
Abstract We describe a simple but effective traffic model that can be used to understand the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks based on query floods in Gnutella networks. We run simulations based on the model to analyze how different choices of network topology and application level load balancing policies can minimize the effect of these types of DoS attacks. In addition, we also study how damage caused by query floods is distributed throughout the network, and how application level policies can localize the damage.
Keywords peer-to-peer, security, denial-of-service
Contact address daswani@cs.stanford.edu
Notes Preprint
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