Distributed Denial of Service is a Scalability Problem Yoo Chung National Institute for Mathematical Sciences 463-1 Jeonmin-dong Yuseong-gu Daejeon, South Korea chungyc@nims.re.kr This article is an editorial note submitted to CCR. It has NOT been peer reviewed. The author takes full responsibility for this article s technical content. Comments can be posted through CCR Online. ABSTRACT Distributed denial of service attacks are often considered just a security problem. While this may be the way to view the problem with the Internet of today, perhaps new network architectures attempting to address the issue should view it as a scalability problem. In addition, they may need to approach the problem based on a rigorous foundation. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.1 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Architecture and Design General Terms Reliability, Security the botnet to ful ll whatever nefarious purpose the person wants ful lled.2 One of these nefarious purposes is to execute a distributed denial of service attack [5] on a speci c online system so that nobody can use it. A distributed denial of service attack involves a very large number of computers all over the network sending data to the single target system that is to be attacked. If
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