Router Models and Downscaling Tools for Scalable Security Experiments

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Research Areas: Network Security

Principal Investigator: Sonia Fahmy

A major challenge that researchers face in studying attacks over the Internet is the size of the network to be investigated. For example, a typical Denial of Service (DoS) attack usually takes place over a large portion of the Internet and involves a considerable number of hosts. This can be intractable for testbed experimentation, and even simulation. The goal of this project is twofold: (1) devise solutions to the scalability problem for both network simulation and emulation experiments by partitioning a large network experiment into multiple smaller experiments which are manageable in the simulation or emulation testbed, and (2) develop device-agnostic simulation and emulation models for forwarding devices, such as switches and routers, and design an automated model parameter inference process.

Personnel

Students: Ravish Khosla Wei-Min Yao