Analysis of the EDoS attack impact on elastic cloud services using finite queuing model

Abstract

This paper proposes a logical model to examine the effect of the EDoS attack in cloud environment using finite queuing model and enhanced with experimental model. Due to this sophisticated attacks the computing resources are busy and buffer capacity of the cloud gets exhausted by both the legitimate and malicious user requests, because of this both types of requests could not get the service. The legitimate customers are unable to get service of web application. In this backdrop this paper investigates and evaluates the vendor loss factor from the cost factor of view since the legitimate client requests are denied service. The objective of this analysis is twofold i) to identify the dynamics of the EDoS attacks with different attack rates and to measure the various performance metrics (total number of busy virtual machines, utilization of the cloud resources, request response time, request loss probability, and throughput). ii) The cost function is defined and evaluated based on these performance metrics. Finally compared analytical and experimental results are presented and conclusions are drawn.