Automating DDoS experimentation

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Author

Jelena Mirkovic, Brett Wilson, Alefiya Hussain, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Stephen Schwab

Entry type

proceedings

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 automating experimentation for distributed denial-of-service attacks. We developed the following automation tools: (1) the Experimenter's Workbench that provides a graphical user interface, tools for topology, traffic and monitoring setup and tools for statistics collection, visualization and processing, (2) a DDoS benchmark suite that contains a set of diverse and comprehensive attack scenarios, (3) the Experiment Generator that combines chosen AS-level and edge-level topologies, legitimate traffic and a set of attacks into DETER-compatible scripts. Jointly, these tools facilitate easy experimentation even for novice users.

Date

2007

URL

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1322596

Booktitle

Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007

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Fahmy

Pages

4-4

Publisher

USENIX Association

Publication Date

2007-00-00

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@Proceedings{ Fahmy,
	title = "Automating DDoS experimentation",
	author = "Jelena Mirkovic, Brett Wilson, Alefiya Hussain, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Stephen Schwab",
	year = "2007",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test on DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007",
	pages = "4-4",
	publisher = "USENIX Association",
	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 automating experimentation for distributed denial-of-service attacks. We developed the following automation tools: (1) the Experimenter's Workbench that provides a graphical user interface, tools for topology, traffic and monitoring setup and tools for statistics collection, visualization and processing, (2) a DDoS benchmark suite that contains a set of diverse and comprehensive attack scenarios, (3) the Experiment Generator that combines chosen AS-level and edge-level topologies, legitimate traffic and a set of attacks into DETER-compatible scripts. Jointly, these tools facilitate easy experimentation even for novice users.",
	url = "http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1322596",
}