Modeling DoS Attacks

Characterizing DoS Attacks

• The Trident traffic generator.
  "The purpose of Trident is to generate test traffic to assess the resiliency and performance of network systems such as firewalls and NIDS in emulation testbeds such as WAIL."

• The SAMAN project has as one of its objectives to measure, analyze, and model distributed denial of service attacks.
  • A Framework for Classifying Denial of Service Attacks.
  • The Effect of Malicious Traffic on the Network.

  Sally Floyd.
  Last modified: September 2007