MovingFirewall: A Countermeasure against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Letters
Hitoshi Fuji, Eric Chen, Koichi Okada, Dai Kashiwa · 2003
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have recently attracted a lot of attention because of their potential threat to the Internet community. Conventional countermeasures deployed by end users alone are limited in their ability to secure IP networks from DDoS attacks. This article presents an innovative technology called MovingFirewall, which can be deployed by network providers to effectively cope with DDoS attacks by mitigating attack floods at multiple upstream nodes near the attacking hosts.