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Toward Practical Inter-Domain Source Address Validation


Abstract:

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most fundamental building block of the Internet. However, it provides no explicit notion of packet-level authenticity. Such a weakness a...Show More

Abstract:

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most fundamental building block of the Internet. However, it provides no explicit notion of packet-level authenticity. Such a weakness allows malicious actors to spoof IP packet headers and launch a wide variety of attacks. Meanwhile, the highly decentralized management of Internet infrastructure makes large-scale source address validation challenging in terms of overhead, validity, and flexibility. This paper presents a practical anti-spoofing approach, Source Address Validation Architecture eXternal (SAVA-X). SAVA-X introduces the concept of Address Domain to enable address validation in finer, prefix-level granularity. The address domains are organized in nested hierarchies to provide higher scalability and lower maintenance costs for partial deployment. We implement SAVA-X on commercial backbone routers and the P4 platform. The experiments indicate that the hardware implementation of SAVA-X can achieve 98% throughput on 100 Gbps links and close to the native IP forwarding in per-packet overhead, with less than 10 microseconds additional processing latency.
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 32, Issue: 4, August 2024)
Page(s): 3126 - 3141
Date of Publication: 19 March 2024

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