DESIGN & DEPLOYMENT OF TESTBED BASED ON ICMPv6 FLOODING ATTACK

One of the important protocols in IPv6 implementation is ICMPv6 which is used for neighbor and router discovery. However, this protocol also could be used by attackers to deny network services like ICMPv6 flood attacks which network decreases performance. In ICMPv6 flooding attacks detection, behavioural-based approaches, particularly suffer from the unavailability of the benchmark datasets. This can lead to the lack of precise results evaluation of ICMPv6flooding attack detection systems, comparison, and deployment, which originates from the deficiency of adequate datasets. Most of the datasets in the IPv6 field are from local environment and cannot be used on a large scale due to privacy problems and do not reflect common trends. They also lack some statistical features. Therefore, there is not any available benchmark dataset infected by ICMPv6-based foods for performing a Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against Web servers by using ICMPv6 flooding method. In addition, there is no Web access log infected by ICMPv6-based flood available for researchers. This paper presents the ICMPv6-based flooding attacks testbed to study the behaviour of ICMPv6 flooding attack as well as evaluating different solutions proposed for detecting ICMPv6-based flood of DoS attacks by various researchers.