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On Pollution Attacks in Fully Connected P2P Networks Using Trusted Peers

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This work studies the impact of the pollution attack in a fully connected live video streaming P2P push based overlay network, as well as the effectiveness of using trusted peers as the only defense mechanism. Determining the best strategies for both: (i) trusted peers (TPs) with the aim to detect and expel malicious peers (MPs) and (ii) malicious peers in order to pollute without being detected, is a challenge. Preliminary experimental results for the studied strategies show that the use of TPs is not an enough solution to defeat a large number of MPs because the number of TPs should be at least equal to the number of MPs. Additionally, this study shows the ingredients of a possible game theory problem formulation where the proposed attacker strategy could be improved to detect TPs, which in turn could improve the defense strategy, and so on.

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Notes

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    http://p2psp.org/en.

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    In the context of P2PSP, peers are identified by their IP addresses, so, attacker should use botnets to perform a sybil attack.

  3. 3.

    Or refuse-to-send, which is equivalent for our analysis.

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Acknowledgments

This paper has been supported by the Spanish Ministry (TIN2015-66680), in part financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Cristóbal is supported by an FPU Fellowship (FPU14/00635) from the Spanish Ministry of Education (MECD). The work done by Ilshat was funded by Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2015 initiative.

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  1. University of Almería (ceiA3), Almería, Spain

    Cristóbal Medina-López, L. G. Casado & Vicente González-Ruiz

  2. Perm State University, Perm, Russia

    Ilshat Shakirov

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Medina-López, C., Shakirov, I., Casado, L.G., González-Ruiz, V. (2017). On Pollution Attacks in Fully Connected P2P Networks Using Trusted Peers. In: Madureira, A., Abraham, A., Gamboa, D., Novais, P. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53480-0_15

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