Preventing DoS attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems

William Conner; Klara Nahrstedt; Indranil Gupta

doi:10.1117/12.642393

16 January 2006 Preventing DoS attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems

William Conner, Klara Nahrstedt, Indranil Gupta

Proceedings Volume 6071, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2006; 60710D (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642393
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for preventing both selfishness and denial-of-service attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems. Our framework, called Oversight, achieves prevention of these undesirable activities by running a separate peer-to-peer download rate enforcement protocol along with the underlying peer-to-peer media streaming protocol. This separate Oversight protocol enforces download rate limitations on each participating peer. These limitations prevent selfish or malicious nodes from downloading an overwhelming amount of media stream data that could potentially exhaust the entire system. Since Oversight is based on a peer-to-peer architecture, it can accomplish this enforcement functionality in a scalable, efficient, and decentralized way that fits better with peer-to-peer media streaming systems compared to other solutions based on central server architectures. As peer-to-peer media streaming systems continue to grow in popularity, the threat of selfish and malicious peers participating in such large peer-to-peer networks will continue to grow as well. For example, since peer-to-peer media streaming systems allow users to send small request messages that result in the streaming of large media objects, these systems provide an opportunity for malicious users to exhaust resources in the system with little effort expended on their part. However, Oversight addresses these threats associated with selfish or malicious peers who cause such disruptions with excessive download requests. We evaluated our Oversight solution through simulations and our results show that applying Oversight to peer-to-peer media streaming systems can prevent both selfishness and denial-of-service attacks by effectively limiting the download rates of all nodes in the system.

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William Conner, Klara Nahrstedt, and Indranil Gupta "Preventing DoS attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems", Proc. SPIE 6071, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2006, 60710D (16 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642393

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