Investigation of DDoS attacks by hybrid simulation

Abstract

At present protection against distributed attacks of the type “denial of service” (DDoS) is one of the important tasks. The paper considers a simulation environment for DDoS attacks of different types using the combination of a simulation approach and real software-hardware testbeds. In the paper we briefly describe the system architecture and a series of experiments for DDoS attack simulation on transport and application levels. The experimental results are provided, and the analysis of these results is performed.