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Denial-of-service resilience in peer-to-peer file sharing systems

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Denial-of-service resilience in peer-to-peer file sharing systems
Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing systems are characterized by highly replicated content distributed among nodes with enormous aggregate resources for storage and communication. These properties alone are not sufficient, however, to render p2p networks immune to denial-of-service (DoS) attack. In this paper, we study, by means of analytical modeling and simulation, the resilience of p2p file sharing systems against DoS attacks, in which malicious nodes respond to queries with erroneous responses. We consider the filetargeted attacks in current use in the Internet, and we introduce a new class of p2p-network-targeted attacks. In file-targeted attacks, the attacker puts a large number of corrupted versions of a single file on the network. We demonstrate that the effectiveness of these attacks is highly dependent on the clients’ behavior. For the attacks to succeed over the long term, clients must be unwilling to share files, slow in removing corrupted files from their machines, ...
Dan Dumitriu, Edward W. Knightly, Aleksandar Kuzma
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where SIGMETRICS
Authors Dan Dumitriu, Edward W. Knightly, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Ion Stoica, Willy Zwaenepoel
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