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The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks

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Jhonatan Tavori,

Anat Bremler-Barr,

Hanoch LevyAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT 2023: Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

Pages 67 - 68

https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630091

Published: 05 December 2023 Publication History

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Retry mechanisms are commonly used in microservices architectures as a mechanism for recovering from transit errors, including network failures and service overloading. This research aims at studying the operation of cloud retry mechanisms under deliberated DDoS attacks, and their effect on the application performance and operational costs. In this poster we focus on the economic aspect, and demonstrate that enabling such mechanisms improperly might be counter-productive and expose the system to substantial and quadratic economical damage in the presence of attacks.

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The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network performance analysis
2. Security and privacy
  1. Network security

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CoNEXT 2023: Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

December 2023

80 pages

ISBN:9798400704079

DOI:10.1145/3624354

General Chairs:
Dario Rossi
Huawei Technologies
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Stefano Secci
CNAM
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Program Chairs:
Olivier Bonaventure
UCLouvain
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Lili Qiu
Microsoft Research Asia and University of Texas, Austin

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Published: 05 December 2023

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Israel Science Foundation
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CoNEXT 2023: The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

December 5 - 8, 2023

Paris, France

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