Betreuer/in: Ottens
Satellite Constellation Networks represent an emerging field, due to their ability to transfer data with low latency between remote locations on Earth. These networks are vulnerable to Link Flooding Attacks such as Coremelt and Crossfire.
Mitigation strategies, such as Load Balancing (LB), distribute traffic across multiple paths.
However, the effectiveness of these approaches in multi-layer satellite networks at the scale of contemporary networks remains insufficiently explored.
A discrete event-based simulator was developed using the network simulator ns-3 to model a satellite constellation network with two layers in low and medium Earth orbit.
By assesing the network impact caused by attacks in different simulations, it is found that LB improves the network resilience and reduces the delay impact on traffic up to 98 %. While LB provides effective mitigation for smaller-scale attacks, larger attacks cannot be addressed solely by LB and require additional methods or network scaling.
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Meeting-ID: 683 5070 2053
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