Survey on ROQ Attacks

Abstract: Reduction of Quality (ROQ, pronounced as Rock attack) of attacks is a new category of attacks that target the adaptation mechanisms of the current internet systems. Unlike its ancestral Denial of Service Attacks these attacks don’t aim to completely shut down the services of a server or a network, instead these aim to depreciate the Quality of the targeted network(s). The main objective of these attacks is to degrade the Quality of the systems, due to this reason they are also termed as low rate DDOS or DOS or shrew attacks. The users of the system experience a considerably degraded response from the network. These attacks are orchestrated while keeping a low profile, to evade the current detection systems and hence are more difficult to detect, yet they cause a serious damage to the system. This paper aims to look into the current research in the field and what all techniques have been discussed so far to mitigate the impact of this attack on the current internet systems.

Keywords: ROQ, DDOS, Shrew, RTO, RTT, TCP time-out.