Defense against low-rate TCP-targeted Denial-of-service attacks

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 345-350

  Yang, Guang ^a   Gerla, Mario ^a   Sanadidi, M Y ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Denial of Service; Randomization; Retransmission Timeout; TCP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

DATA RETRANSMISSION; DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS); RANDOMIZATION; RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUT;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 10844276473     PISSN: 15301346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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