Traffic analysis for WiMAX network under DDoS attack

Author

Shojaee, Maryam ; Movahhedinia, Naser ; Ladani, Behrouz Tork

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

1-2 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

283

Abstract

High data rate transmissions in recent broadband wireless technologies such as WiMAX have caused them to be more vulnerable to security threats. Moreover, due to new application scopes, the security requirements of WiMAX networks have been escalated in this technology, transmission of high volume of Ranging Request (RNG-REQ) messages toward the base station (BS) can lead to exposure to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In this paper, we present an analytical model for such attacks in Mobile WiMAX using so-called H parameter which has been used for traffic analysis in campus networks and Internet. A model for the traffic generated by this vulnerability is presented to detect DDoS attacks.

Keywords

Internet; WiMax; mobile radio; telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; DDoS attack; H parameter; Internet; analytical model; base station; campus networks; distributed denial of service attacks; mobile WiMAX network; ranging request messages; security requirements; traffic analysis; Security; WiMAX; DDoS attack; H Parameter; Self-similarity; WiMAx;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits,Communications and System (PACCS), 2010 Second Pacific-Asia Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7969-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACCS.2010.5626885

Filename

5626885