Mitigation of Flooding Based Denial of Service Attack against Session Initiation Protocol Based VoIP System

Author

Bansal, Abhishek ; Pais, Alwyn R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., NITK, Surathkal, India

fYear

2015

fDate

13-14 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

396

Abstract

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the most popular signaling protocol used in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The flooding based DoS attack can be performed by sending only hundreds of SIP messages per second to a SIP server. In this paper, we have proposed a new mitigation scheme for SIP based VoIP system which can protect it from flooding based DoS attack. This scheme is based on the INVITE and BYE messages of the SIP protocol. A prototype system for the flooding based DoS attack on SIP server and a mitigation mechanism has been designed and implemented. The performance of the proposed system has been evaluated and found to be better than other existing mechanisms.

Keywords

Internet telephony; computer network security; signalling protocols; BYE messages; DoS attack; INVITE messages; SIP messages; VoIP system; flooding based denial of service attack mitigation; prototype system; session initiation protocol; voice over Internet protocol; Computer crashes; Computer crime; Floods; IP networks; Protocols; Servers; DoS; SIP; VoIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ghaziabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6022-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICT.2015.66

Filename

7078732