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Mitigating ROQ Attacks using Flow Monitoring Method

	International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)
	© 2013 by IJETT Journal
	Volume-4 Issue-9
	Year of Publication : 2013
	Authors : Seema Gulati , Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal

Citation 

Seema Gulati , Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal. "Mitigating ROQ Attacks using Flow Monitoring Method". International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT). V4(9):4074-4079 Sep 2013. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group.

Abstract

Reduction of Quality attacks is a milder form of the DOS attacks but these are more difficult to detect than the traditional flooding attacks. The goal of these attacks do - not wish to completely cut - off services and re sources or damage resources, instead only wish to reduce the QoS offered to the users of the systems and the services of the system. These attacks send traffic at a sufficiently low average rate to evade the detection systems, and try to keep the systems o scillate between over load and under load conditions. Unlike the traditional DOS attacks which limit the steady state capacity of a system, these target the adaptive behavior of the TCP congestion control mechanism. In this paper a flow monitoring techniqu e is proposed to mitigate the impact of ROQ attacks in wireless networks. The simulation results show that the proposed technique helps to reduce packet loss and improves throughput.

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Keywords
ROQ, DDOS, Shrew, RTO, RTT, TCP time - out .