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Anycast for DDoS

Kuipers, J.H. (2017) Anycast for DDoS.

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Abstract:In this work we investigate the im- pact of DDoS attacks on anycast services and the possibilities of anycast recon- figuration as a possible mitigation against the effects of a DDoS attacks. To analyse the effects of a DDoS attack on anycast services we combined DDoS attack data and an anycast testbed developed for research purposes. We used DDoS attack data from captured real DDoS attacks [2] and simulated DDoS attacks based on captured botnet traffic. The anycast testbed consists of 9 sites spread around the world and is capable of measuring which IPs reach each instance using active measurements. DDoS attack defense and mitigation is a popular and broad subject and active research domain. One mitigation method used to alleviate the effects of a DDoS attack is (anycast) network reconfiguration. Anycast services are generally configured to spread the traffic load across sites according to site capacity. But anycast services can be reconfigured to spread the load of DDoS traffic in various other ways. The anycast service could for instance be configured to redirect all (DDoS) traffic to one site with scrubbing devices installed. We reconfigured the anycast testbed using a method called AS-path prepending and measured the impact of several of these mitiga- tion strategies. Several other anycast configuration and manipulation methods exist, such as BGP communities, but we decided to choose AS-path prepending only to be able to evuluate this method more thoroughly and prevent attribu- tion problems when two methods are used at the same time.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:54 computer science
Programme:Computer Science MSc (60300)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/73795
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