Model construction on prefix hijacking attack

There have been many incidents of IP prefix hijacking by BGP protocol in the Internet. The AS that hijacks a prefix can blackhole and intercept all the hijacked traffic and thus, cause a denial-of-service attack or a man-in-the-middle attack against the prefix owner. The relation on prefix hijacking and the Internet structure is presented in this paper. Two impaction parameters, affected ASes set Nc and affected paths factor μ, are analyzed for typical prefix hijacking events in different layers.