Detecting flooding attacks against IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks

Author

Rebahi, Yacine ; Sher, Muhammad ; Magedanz, Thomas

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. Fokus, Berlin

fYear

2008

fDate

March 31 2008-April 4 2008

Firstpage

848

Lastpage

851

Abstract

The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is an open IP based service infrastructure that enables an easy deployment of new rich multimedia services mixing voice and data. The IMS is considered as a next generation service delivery platform (SDP) on top of different wireless and wire line access networks. It is based on the session initiation protocol (SIP) which is gaining more and more acceptance in the VoIP market. As an emerging technology, the SIP standard will certainly be the target of denial of service (DoS) attacks and consequently IMS will also inherit this problem. Therefore, it is very important to protect IMS resources from DoS threats. In this paper, we suggest an efficient solution for protecting the IMS networks from such attacks.

Keywords

IP networks; multimedia communication; protocols; telecommunication security; DoS attacks; IP multimedia subsystem networks; denial of service attacks; flooding attacks detection; multimedia services; service delivery platform; session initiation protocol; wireless access networks; wireline access networks; Access protocols; Authentication; Cellular networks; Computer crime; Computer hacking; Cryptography; Data security; IP networks; Network servers; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2008. AICCSA 2008. IEEE/ACS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Doha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1967-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1968-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2008.4493627

Filename

4493627