STUDY OF FLOODING BASED DDOS ATTACKS AND THEIR EFFECT USING DETER TESTBED

Daljeet Kaur, Monika Sachdeva

Abstract: Today, Internet is the primary medium for communication which is used by number of users across the Network. At the same time, its commercial nature is causing increase vulnerability to enhance cyber crimes and there has been an enormous increase in the number of DDOS (distributed denial of service attack) attacks on the internet over the past decade. Whose impact can be proportionally severe. With little or no advance warning, a DDoS attack can easily exhaust the computing and communication resources of its victim within a short period of time. Network resources such as network bandwidth, web servers and network switches are mostly the victims of DDoS attacks. In this paper different types of DDoS attacks has been studied, a dumb-bell topology have been created and effect of UDP flooding attacks has been analyzed on web service by using attack tools available in DETER testbed. Throughput of web server is analyzed with and without DDoS attacks

Keywords: Vulnerability, DDoS, availability, confidentiality, throughput

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0205026