Distributed Denial of Service Attack and Defence – Monograph –

Since human beings stepped into the Internet era, our lives are deeply involved with the Internet. Many killer applications are carried out through Internet based appli-cations. At the same time, motivated by huge financial, political or other rewards, hackers are exhausting their energy to execute cyber crimes. Due to the nature of the Internet and the lack of cyber laws, cyberspace has been a heaven for intelligent attackers. It is easy to launch attacks, but hard to identify the persons who commit the attacks. It is even harder to bring them to justice. To date, one critical attack in cyberspace is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. My study on cyber security started in 2007. I am attracted by this topic not only because the problem itself, but also the bigger research field of cy-berspace. It is generally agreed that the current Internet research lacks theoretical foundation. Research indicates that our understanding of the cyberspace is limited, and there are a huge unexplored territory in cyberspace for both academical and industrial participants. This book brief is mainly based on our research of the DDoS problem. For read-ers ’ convenience, we try to make each chapter relatively independent. Moreover, we pay a special attention on methodology and mathematical modelling, and expect to benefit readers for their potential research in related fields. Constrained by my knowledge and capability, the content of this book brief is very shallow in terms of mathematical modelling. However, I decide not to hide my disadvantage in order to save a bit time for some beginners who may work on the related fields. I would like to thank the editor of this series, Professor Sherman Shen, for his constructive guidance and kind help. Thanks are also noted for the team of Springer for their patience and assistance. I also would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Yue Wu, Professor Yi Zhang, and Professor Wanlei Zhou for bringing me to the academic world. During these years study on DDoS, my colleagues, co-authors, and many people offered m