Forwarding decisions in routing protocols rely on information about the destination nodes provided by routing table states. When paths to a destination change, corresponding states become invalid and need to be refreshed with control messages for resilient routing. In large and highly dynamic networks, this overhead can crowd out the capacity for data traffic. For […]
Traceback of DDoS Attacks Using Entropy Variations
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are a critical threat to the Internet. However, the memoryless feature of the Internet routing mechanisms makes it extremely hard to trace back to the source of these attacks. As a result, there is no effective and efficient method to deal with this issue so far. In this paper, we propose […]
Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses
IP spoofing exacerbates many security threats, and reducing it would greatly enhance Internet security. Seven defenses that filter spoofed traffic have been proposed to date; three are designed for end-network deployment, while four assume some collaboration with core routers for packet marking or filtering. Because each defense has been evaluated in a unique setting, the […]
Efficient Network Modification to Improve QoS Stability at Failures
When a link or node fails, flows are detoured around the failed portion, so the hop count of flows and the link load could change dramatically as a result of the failure. As real-time traffic such as video or voice increases on the Internet, ISPs are required to provide stable quality as well as connectivity […]
Modeling and Detection of Camouflaging Worm
Active worms pose major security threats to the Internet. This is due to the ability of active worms to propagate in an automated fashion as they continuously compromise computers on the Internet. Active worms evolve during their propagation, and thus, pose great challenges to defend against them. In this paper, we investigate a new class […]
Providing e-Transaction Guarantees in Asynchronous Systems with No Assumptions on the Accuracy of Failure Detection
n this paper, we address reliability issues in three-tier systems with stateless application servers. For these systems, a framework called e-Transaction has been recently proposed, which specifies a set of desirable end-to-end reliability guarantees. In this article, we propose an innovative distributed protocol providing e-Transaction guarantees in the general case of multiple, autonomous back-end databases […]
An Obfuscation-Based Approach for Protecting Location Privacy
The pervasive diffusion of mobile communication devices and the technical improvements of location techniques are fostering the development of new applications that use the physical position of users to offer location-based services for business, social, or informational purposes. In such a context, privacy concerns are increasing and call for sophisticated solutions able to guarantee different […]
Peering Equilibrium Multipath Routing: A Game Theory Framework for Internet Peering Settlements
It is generally admitted that interdomain peering links represent nowadays the main bottleneck of the Internet, particularly because of lack of coordination between providers, which use independent and “selfish” routing policies. We are interested in identifying possible “light” coordination strategies that would allow carriers to better control their peering links while preserving their independence and […]
SAT: A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks
Anonymity has received increasing attention in the literature due to the users’ awareness of their privacy nowadays. Anonymity provides protection for users to enjoy network services without being traced. While anonymity-related issues have been extensively studied in payment-based systems such as e-cash and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, little effort has been devoted to wireless mesh networks […]
Stabilization of flood sequence protocols in sensor networks
Flood is a communication primitive that can be used by the base station of a sensor network to send a copy of a message to every sensor in the network. When a sensor receives a flood message, the sensor needs to check whether it has received this message for the first time and so this […]
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