Practical Proactive DDoS-Attack Mitigation via Endpoint-Driven In-Network Traffic Control.

Volumetric attacks, which overwhelm the bandwidth of a destination, are among the most common distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks today. Despite considerable effort made by both research and industry, our recent interviews with over 100 potential DDoS victims in over 10 industry segments indicate that today's DDoS prevention is far from perfect. On one hand, few academical proposals have ...