Misusing Kademlia Protocol to Perform DDoS Attacks

Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, ISPA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 80-86

  Yu, Jie ^a   Li, Zhoujun ^b   Chen, Xiaoming ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ddos; Kademlia; P2P; Security

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; REFLECTION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DDOS; DDOS ATTACKS; KADEMLIA; P2P; P2P APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL ATTACKS; REAL-WORLD EXPERIMENTS; REFLECTION ATTACKS; ROUTING TABLES; SECURITY; TCP CONNECTIONS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 60649116060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPA.2008.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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