ANALYZING THE PERFORMANCE OF BANDWIDTH STARVATION ATTACK IN LAN
Sharada Valiveti, Hetuk Upadhyay, Ketan V. Kotecha · 2014
Cyber Security is a blooming area of research in the current Trends. Communication Technology has penetrated everyone's life. Where on one hand, people are developing latest technologies and tools to enhance the living standard of an individual, Attackers are continuously trying to break the code of conduct of Networks. Bandwidth Starvation Attack is one such Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Due to this attack, performance of the network suffers. In this paper, a Bandwidth Starvation Attack is performed in a wired Network that comprises of computers connected to each other through the Switch. The proposed approach deals with an idea of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) present inside router. Since all packets are forwarded through the router only, an IDS implemented in the router may protect the system in a better way. Since the network here is a Wired Network, we can have IDS on a standalone system that can handle these types of attacks. A signature based host IDS is proposed herewith so that all the signatures of the attack are inside the IDS from the beginning and thus we can identify the packets as quickly as possible.