Fighting Fire with Light
Matthew Nance Hall, Guyue Liu, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Vyas Sekar · 2020
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are a clear and present threat to both today's and future network infrastructures. Attacks are constantly growing in sophistication with new threats emerging and likely amplified with other technology trends (e.g., amplification, IoT botnets, 5G connectivity). While great progress has been made in devising many types of mitigation strategies, they are found wanting in light of advanced large-scale attacks and our ability to minimize the impact of the attacks on legitimate services.