Dr. Zongming Fei, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science at
University of Kentucky presenting:

The Sigcomm'01 paper:
at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2001/p2.html

On the Effectiveness of Route-Based Packet Filtering for Distributed DoS
Attack Prevention in Power-Law Internets 

Kihong Park, Heejo Lee (Purdue University) 

Denial of service (DoS) attack on the Internet has become
a pressing problem. In this paper, we describe and evaluate
route-based distributed packet filtering (DPF), a novel
approach to distributed DoS (DDoS) attack prevention. We show
that DPF achieves proactiveness and scalability, and we
show that there is an intimate relationship between the
effectiveness of DPF at mitigating DDoS attack and
power-law network topology.