GNN4IFA: Interest Flooding Attack Detection With Graph Neural Networks

Andrea Agiollo*, Enkeleda Bardhi, Mauro Conti, Riccardo Lazzeretti, Eleonora Losiouk, Andrea Omicini

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Abstract

In the context of Information-Centric Networking, Interest Flooding Attacks (IFAs) represent a new and dangerous sort of distributed denial of service. Since existing proposals targeting IFAs mainly focus on local information, in this paper we propose GNN4IFA as the first mechanism exploiting complex non-local knowledge for IFA detection by leveraging Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) handling the overall network topology.In order to test GNN4IFA, we collect SPOTIFAI, a novel dataset filling the current lack of available IFA datasets by covering a variety of IFA setups, including ~40 heterogeneous scenarios over three network topologies. We show that GNN4IFA performs well on all tested topologies and setups, reaching over 99% detection rate along with a negligible false positive rate and small computational costs. Overall, GNN4IFA overcomes state-of-the-art detection mechanisms both in terms of raw detection and flexibility, and - unlike all previous solutions in the literature - also enables the transfer of its detection on network topologies different from the one used in its design phase.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2023
PublisherIEEE
Pages615-630
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-6512-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2023 - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 3 Jul 20237 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2023

Conference

Conference8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2023
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period3/07/237/07/23

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Emerging Networks
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Interest Flooding Attacks
  • Network Security

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