Using Emulation and Simulation to Understand the Large-scale Behavior of the Internet

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1130403· OSTI ID:1130403

Adalsteinsson, Helgi ^[1]; Armstrong, Robert C. ^[1]; Minnich, Ronald G. ^[1]; Rudish, Don W. ^[1]; Vanderveen, Keith ^[1]; Chiang, Ken ^[1]; Lloyd, Levi ^[1]; Van Randwyk, Jamie A. ^[1]; Gentile, Ann C. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

We report on the work done in the late-start LDRD Using Emulation and Simulation to Understand the Large-Scale Behavior of the Internet. We describe the creation of a research platform that emulates many thousands of machines to be used for the study of large-scale inter-net behavior. We describe a proof-of-concept simple attack we performed in this environment. We describe the successful capture of a Storm bot and, from the study of the bot and further literature search, establish large-scale aspects we seek to understand via emulation of Storm on our research platform in possible follow-on work. Finally, we discuss possible future work.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1130403
• Report Number(s): SAND--2008-7122; 508977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English