The availability of fast-flux service networks

Author

Yunfeng Xu ; Yansheng Lu ; Zhengbiao Guo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Hua Zhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

93

Abstract

Fast-flux service network (FFSN) is consisted of a large scale of computers which have two main functions. Firstly, by providing a pool of huge number of IP addresses, the controller of FFSN can choose the IPs to provide services for their own domain name. Secondly, these computers can be served as agents to hide mother-ship. The character of FFSN is that the DNS records of domain name changes constantly at a high frequency. In this paper, we analyze the issue on the reliability of FFSN. The issue is resulted from the uncontrollable nodes of FFSN. We establish a model to describe the reliability by the theory of Poisson Process, and analyze the relationship between the reliability of FFSN and its size.

Keywords

IP networks; stochastic processes; telecommunication network reliability; DNS; IP addresses; Poisson process; computers; fast-flux service networks; mother-ship; Availability; Computers; IP networks; Internet; Security; Servers; Availability; Fast-flux Service Network; Network Size;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Wireless Networking (iCOST), 2011 International Conference on Selected Topics in

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2003-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iCOST.2011.6085842

Filename

6085842