Attacks, Detection Mechanisms and Their Limits in Named Data Networking (NDN)

Abstract

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Q-ICAN: A Q-learning based cache pollution attack mitigation approach for named data networking

“…While NDN is not vulnerable to traditional attacks that target TCP/IP, such as DoS, DDoS, relay, MiTM, or flooding attacks (35), it is still susceptible to new types of attacks, including Cache Pollution Attack (CPA), Cache Poisoning Attack, Interest Flooding Attack (IFA), and Cache Privacy Attack (36). A wider survey of potential attacks in Named Data Networks can be found in (16) (17). The proposed mechanism in the current study specifically targets the Cache Pollution Attack, so in this subsection, we closely investigate the principles and sub-types of CPA.…”

“…In recent times, multiple attacks have specifically targeted this architecture, highlighting the need for robust security measures. Indeed, one of the significant attacks that has impacted NDN is the Cache Pollution Attack (CPA) (16) (17) (18), which can be easily developed and manipulated, and poses a serious threat to the main components of NDN, particularly the Content Store (CS) cache, which can result in an increased number of retransmissions, which ultimately leads to a reduction in network throughput.…”

Push-Based Content Dissemination and Machine Learning-Oriented Illusion Attack Detection in Vehicular Named Data Networking

“…Secondly, NDN is highly vulnerable to various attacks [12] with severe implications, especially in the context of VNDN, where human lives are directly involved. In VNDN, the illusion of attacker vehicles can disseminate invalid information among their neighboring vehicles.…”