A survey on detection and mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attack in named data networking

Abstract

There are various numbers of on-going researches taking place that aims to provide next best Internet architecture although there are varieties of scope and maturity. This research is mainly based on to provide better security and better privacy as basic requirements of the protocol. Denial-of-service attack which is a major issue in current Internet architecture also plays a critical issue in any new upcoming Internet architecture and requires major focus for these types of attacks. But resilience to such type of attacks has not been analyzed fully. This paper focuses on the Interest Flooding Attack which is one of the different types of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) in named data networking (NDN). DDOS attacks the Pending Interest Table (PIT) or Content Store (CS) of router. NDN incorporates better security features that detect and mitigate certain attack in the networks. But its resilience to the attacks has not analyzed yet. It presents the distributed denial of service (DDOS) in named data networking where an adversary sends out Interest packet with spoof names as an attacking packet to the NDN router.