Research on the performance of low-rate DoS attack
Meng Yue · Journal of Communications · 2008
Low-rate denial of service(LDoS) is a new breed of DoS attack with periodic pulse.LDoS attacks appear pe-riodically in low volume,thereby damaging the victim servers for a long time without being detected.The LDoS attack traffic was simulated and generated by estimating the retransmission time out(RTO) of normal TCP flow based on the analysis of LDoS attack features,and the performance of targets under the attacking of LdoS was tested.Experiments fo-cus on the thoughtout testing of Web and FTP server when LDoS attacks launched.Test results show that LDoS could be even more detrimental to network resources than the flooding type of DDoS attacks,because it is harder to be detected by available method.A lot of useful experimental data for future LDoS detection and defense research were presernted.