A queueing analysis for the denial of service (DoS) attacks in computer networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3564-3573

  Wang, Yang ^a   Lin, Chuang ^a   Li, Quan Lin ^a   Fang, Yuguang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Connection loss probability; DoS attack; Network security; Queueing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING THEORY;

ATTACK TRAFFIC; BUFFER OCCUPANCY; CONNECTION LOSS PROBABILITY; DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS) ATTACKS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 34250338058     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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