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Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Qi Duan , Haadi Jafarian , Ehab Al-Shaer , Jinhui Xu

A bandwidth puzzle was recently proposed to defend against colluding adversaries in peer-to-peer networks. The colluding adversaries do not do actual work but claim to have uploaded contents for each other to gain free credits from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-21 Zhenghao Zhang

In this paper, we first consider a pinning node selection and control gain co-design problem for complex networks. A necessary and sufficient condition for the synchronization of the pinning controlled networks at a homogeneous state is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yuzhe Li , Dawei Shi , Tongwen Chen

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is detrimental to businesses and individuals as people are heavily relying on the Internet. Due to remarkable profits, crackers favor DDoS as cybersecurity weapons to attack a victim. Even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jianhua Li , Ximeng Liu , Jiong JIn , Shui Yu

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust victim's bandwidth or services. Traditional architecture of Internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks and an ongoing cycle of attack & defense is observed. In this paper, different types and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Muhammad Aamir , Mustafa Ali Zaidi

Existing defence mechanisms have demonstrated significant effectiveness in mitigating rule-based Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, leveraging predefined signatures and static heuristics to identify and block malicious traffic. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wei Shao , Yuhao Wang , Rongguang He , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Seyit Camtepe

Since its introduction in 1987, the DNS has become one of the core components of the Internet. While it was designed to work with both TCP and UDP, DNS-over-UDP (DoUDP) has become the default option due to its low overhead. As new Resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pratyush Dikshit , Mike Kosek , Nils Faulhaber , Jayasree Sengupta , Vaibhav Bajpai

Disruption from service caused by DDoS attacks is an immense threat to Internet today. These attacks can disrupt the availability of Internet services completely, by eating either computational or communication resources through sheer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-13 B. B. Gupta , Manoj Misra , R. C. Joshi

This letter deals with the problem of quantifying resiliency of Networked Control Systems (NCSs) to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and variable network delays. Internal exponential stability and $\mathcal{L}_2$ external stability are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Roberto Merco , Francesco Ferrante , Pierluigi Pisu

In this paper, we present a study on the recent approaches in handling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attack is a fairly new type of attack to cripple the availability of Internet services and resources. A DDos attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Byung-Jun Oh , Sang-Heon Shim , Young-Chon Kim

In this paper, we focus on the experimental evaluation of TCP over the High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), an upgrade of UMTS that is getting worldwide deployment. Today, this is particularly important in view of the "liberalization"…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-12-10 Luca De Cicco , Saverio Mascolo

Targeted attacks against network infrastructure are notoriously difficult to guard against. In the case of communication networks, such attacks can leave users vulnerable to censorship and surveillance, even when cryptography is used. Much…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Edward L. Platt , Daniel M. Romero

Despite the proliferation of traffic filtering capabilities throughout the Internet, attackers continue to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to successfully overwhelm the victims with DDoS traffic. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jun Li , Devkishen Sisodia , Yebo Feng , Lumin Shi , Mingwei Zhang , Christopher Early , Peter Reiher

Regression testing activities greatly reduce the risk of faulty software release. However, the size of the test suites grows throughout the development process, resulting in time-consuming execution of the test suite and delayed feedback to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mostafa Mahdieh , Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi , Mohsen Mahdieh

Protected user-level libraries have been proposed as a way to allow mutually distrusting applications to safely share kernel-bypass services. In this paper, we identify and solve several previously unaddressed obstacles to realizing this…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Alan Beadle , Michael L. Scott , John Criswell

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are a major problem in the Internet today. In one form of a DDoS attack, a large number of compromised hosts send unwanted traffic to the victim, thus exhausting the resources of the victim and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Karim El Defrawy , Athina Markopoulou , Katerina Argyraki

In this paper, we propose a solution to proactively mitigate Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks in 5G core network slicing using slice isolation. Network slicing is one of the key technologies that allow 5G networks to offer dedicated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Danish Sattar , Ashraf Matrawy

Tremendous and extraordinary growths in the field of internet, intranet, extranet and its users have developed an innovative era of great global competition and contention. Denial of service attack by multiple nodes is accomplished of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Priyanka Negi , Anupama Mishra , B. B. Gupta

Anomaly-based DDoS detection systems construct profile of the traffic normally seen in the network, and identify anomalies whenever traffic deviate from normal profile beyond a threshold. This extend of deviation is normally not utilised.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-13 B. B. Gupta , R. C. Joshi , Manoj Misra