Design and Analysis of a Replicated Elusive Server Scheme for Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks \Lambda

The widespread need and ability to connect machines across the Internet, in a world where intelligent objects rather than documents are exchanged, has caused the network to be more vulnerable to intrusions and has facilitated break-ins of a variety of types. Most of the methods currently available to deal with network vulnerability to abuse and attacks are either inadequate, inefficient or overly restrictive. Compounding the problem is the need to maintain an acceptable level of QoS