RIO: A denial of service experimentation platform in a Future Internet Testbed

Denial of service attacks (DoS) present a serious threat to the security of communication network infrastructure. Whereas the dissemination of new DoS attacks is fast and dynamic, the development of countermeasures to these attacks requires the construction and validation of a test environment that accurately reproduces Internet behavioral patterns. The construction of this environment often requires more time investment from security professionals than the time spent with the development of associated attack countermeasures. This work introduces RIO (Resource Orchestration Infrastructure) platform. RIO platform enables security professional a realistic and flexible approach to DoS experimentation creation and setup. This platform automates the creation and setup of virtual machines, virtual switches, network links, attackers, experimental data collection and experiment execution, based on a single document defining the experiment in a descriptive language. The proposal efficacy is supported by RIO platform ease of use and time reduction towards the acquisition of experimental results.