Toward secure packet delivery in future internet communications

Information-centric networking (ICN) is new emerged Internet model that focuses on what is being exchanged rather than which network entities are exchanging information. Bloom filter based forwarding is one candidate that is used in ICN for packet forwarding. The scheme has the advantage of being simple, stateless, and fast technique. Although, this forwarding scheme solve many problems the of today's Internet such as the growth of the routing table and the scalability issues, it is vulnerable to brute force attacks which are starting point to DDoS attacks. In this work, we design a novel source-routing and information delivery technique that keeps the simplicity of using Bloom filter based forwarding while being able to deter different attacks such as DDoS. The preliminary analysis of this proposal indicates that with the designed scheme, the forwarding function can detect and prevent malicious activities at early stage and with very high probability.