Content-oriented Networking Platform: A Focus on DDoS Countermeasure ( In incremental deployment perspective) Authors: Junho Suh, Hoon-gyu Choi, Wonjun National University

Outline Introduction Content-oriented Networking Architecture –Communication Procedure –Main components –Scenario Summary 2

Change in Communication Paradigm Move to Content-oriented Network –Internet traffic is already content-oriented CDN, multimedia, P2P… –Users/applications care “what to receive” They don’t care “from whom” Host based communication model is outdated 3

IP networking vs. Content networking IP networking –Lookup-by-name Indirection (from name to locator) –Availability concerned Locators can be aggregated –Achieving routing scalability Content-oriented networking –Route-by-name No indirection –Better availability Scalability issue –Content name is flat No backward compatibility 4

Content networking under IP network Observations –Current IP networking leverages network prefixes in routing Routing scalability is good –Content-oriented networking is not good for routing, but good for availability Huge scaling burden –No backward compatibility in content-oriented networking Content routing and IP routing should be combined We propose a grassroots approach –Some popular contents will be cached –Routing info. for those contents can be propagated in local and best-effort manner 5

Content-oriented networking platform Objectives –Exploit content networking to adopt current Internet New entities –Content-aware Agent Interact content based network and IP network Achievements –Security, accountability, incremental deployment to the current Internet 6

Content Request IP-less communication Assumption –Lookup “Content Name” by web search –Content Name URI form Communication inside domain –Requests are relayed to CAA by L2 forwarding –CAA contacts DNS –Consumer cannot contact server directly 1: I want a particular content (e.g. HTTP URI) 2: Here you are consumer CAA internet 7

Content Distribution Registers its domain name in DNS –Agent’s IP address (of the egress link) 8 publisher CAA internet 1: a request for your content 2: here you are

Content-Aware Agent (CAA) Proxy for interacting with IP network –Handle content requests/response FQDN to obtain IP address for publisher’s CAA –Authority content server’s CAA –Caching the requested contents Gateway for heterogeneous networks –Protocol translate or Tunneling –Relay contents in inter-domain environment 9

General Architecture Agent Gateway A Gateway B Publisher Content request Agent’s IP address Agent DNS Content based Communication IP based Communication host Content Distribution Domain Name System Content-Aware Agent (CAA) Content-Aware Router (CAR) 10 Content distribution

Scenario DDoS can happen by requesting content (using HTTP URIs) –Many hosts across multiple ISPs Agent of the publisher detects first –Informs the all the gateways of this event –To request countermeasure A gateway solicits other gateway to reduce the content request rate to the publisher under attack 11 * DDoS might not be activated by some admission control

Implementation 12 Software PCI Bus CPU RxQ CPU RxQ CPU TxQ CPU TxQ CPU RxQ CPU RxQ CPU TxQ CPU TxQ CPU RxQ CPU RxQ CPU TxQ CPU TxQ CPU RxQ CPU RxQ CPU TxQ CPU TxQ nf2_reg_grp user data path nf2c0 nf2c1 nf2c2 nf2c3 ioctl MAC TxQ MAC TxQ MAC RxQ MAC RxQ MAC TxQ MAC TxQ MAC RxQ MAC RxQ MAC TxQ MAC TxQ MAC RxQ MAC RxQ MAC TxQ MAC TxQ MAC RxQ MAC RxQ Ethernet 2. Monitoring Requested contents NetFPGA-Openflow 1. Capture URI/URL 3. Accounting flow 4. Make decision whether DDoS or not

Implementation 13 –In the header parser http_get messages are captured, and then forwarded to the nc2c0 –Otherwise, the module bypasses normal packets

Implementation 14 Controller –Each agent solicits other agents to reduce the content request rate to the publisher under attack via controller To all connected Agent Agent –Checks and limits the rate (if # of request > threshold)

Scenario Example 15 Attacker Content Server Regular host controller Agent HTTP GET TCP flow Control flow

Summary Grassroots approach Content-oriented Networking Platform –Content-Aware Agent (CAA) 16