TCPLS vs QUIC against network security

• Bi-weekly Update: Week March 21

  Edited March 28: Update the instruction guide on running MP-QUIC in Mininet Goals for Week March 7 – March 21 Install TCPLS and QUIC on Mininet Completed/In-progress Tasks Install TCPLS on Mininet Install QUIC on Mininet: MPQUIC Get familiar with Mininet tools and functions: Wireshark Reproduce the results in the paper on TCPLS (2020 and…

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• Model for Security and Performance Analyses

  The information from this part is based on the paper [1]. The paper introduces a security model for analyzing performance-driven protocols like QUIC.  This post reflects our progress in understanding the model and will be constantly updated later. Part I. Security Definition Attacker knows all servers’ public keys can initiate and observe the communication between…

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• Simulation tools 

  Part I. Description of Omnet++ Our team encountered technical difficulties when installing omnet++, and only one machine had installed it successfully. After further investigation in omnet++, our team found omnet++ may not be suitable for our project. For example, our team had a hard time finding the source file/materials about simulating the QUIC and TCPLS…

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• Simulating DoS attack on Mininet

  Part I. Why DoS flood attack? There is a lack of protection in the IP layer to verify the source’s authorization leaving it to the destination to decide whether to accept or drop the packets. In a DoS flood attack, large volumes of useless traffic occupy all the resources of a targeted system and prevent…

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