The Impact of Interest Flooding Attack (IFA) and Collusive IFA on Named Data Networking (NDN)

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a proposed future Internet architecture that has the advantage of bringing content data closer to users. NDN focuses on securing content data rather than securing transmission channels. The NDN network is also not free from threats and attacks that can disrupt network performance. One of the attacks on the NDN network is a denial of service (DoS) attack. The attacker carries out this attack by sending a large number of request packets. This attack is known as an interest flooding attack (IF A). The IF A attack itself has developed into a collusive IFA to avoid existing detection systems. In this paper, we examine the comparative impact of IF A and CIF A attacks on clients or consumers. Knowing the impact and characteristics of IF A and CIF A attacks can be used as a reference in the attack detection system. Attacks are carried out locally and remotely by looking at 3 types of attacks, namely attacks by sending requests for packets that are on the network, attacks by sending requests for containers that are not available on the net, hybrid attacks, and 1 collusive IF A attack. Based on the exploration carried out, it was found that local attacks had a very significant impact compared to remote attacks. IFA attacks that have a major impact on the network are attacks that send content that is not available on the net. The effect of this attack meant that requests sent by consumers were only served by 40% of the total bids.