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Towards Resilient Networks Using Programmable Networking Technologies

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Publication date2009
Host publicationActive and Programmable Networks: IFIP TC6 7th International Working Conference, IWAN 2005, Sophia Antipolis, France, November 21-23, 2005. Revised Papers
EditorsDavid Hutchison, Spyros Denazis, Laurent Lefevre, Gary J. Minden
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages83-95
Number of pages13
ISBN (electronic)978-3-642-00972-3
ISBN (print)978-3-642-00971-6
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume4388
ISSN (Print)0203-9743

Abstract

Resilience is arguably the most important property of a networked system, one of the three quality of service (QoS) characteristics along with security and performance. Now that computer networks are supporting many of the applications crucial to the success of the emerging Information Society – including business, health care, education, science, and government – it is particularly important to ensure that the underlying network infrastructure is resilient to events and attacks that will inevitably occur. Included in these challenges are flash crowd events, in which servers cannot cope with a very large onset of valid traffic, and denial of service attacks which aim to damage networked system with malicious traffic. In this paper, we outline the case for mechanisms to deal with such events and attacks, and we propose programmable networking techniques as the best way ahead, illustrated by a flash crowd example.