Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 75-86

  Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar ^a   Knightly, Edward W ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Denial of Service; Retransmission timeout; TCP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION;

DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS); RETRANSMISSION TIMEOUT; TCP;

INTERNET;

EID: 1242287727     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/863955.863966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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