Protecting internet infrastructure against link flooding attacks : a techno-economic perspective

• Main Authors: Ma, Xiaobo, Li, Jianfeng, Tang, Yajuan, An, Bo, Guan, Xiaohong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Internet Infrastructure Security; Link Flooding Attack
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142636
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As an emerging threat, link flooding attacks (LFAs) target and congest core links that constitute Internet routing infrastructure, hence posing a growing threat to networks worldwide. Mitigating and defeating LFAs is particularly challenging for two reasons. First, arising from the end-to-end commun...