DDoS Sonification
Sonification presents data as sounds instead of visual charts. One of the best known examples of sonification is the representation of radiation level as a click rate in a Geiger counter. This article describes ddos-sonify, an experiment to see if sound can be usefully employed to represent information about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The DDoS attacks and BGP Flowspec responses testbed was used to create the video demonstration at the top of this page in which a series of simulated DDoS attacks are detected and mitigated. Play the video to hear the results.
The software uses the Tone.js library to control Web Audio sound generation functionality in a web browser.
var voices = {};
var loop;
var loopInterval = '4n';
$('#sonify').click(function() {
if($(this).prop("checked")) {
voices.synth = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.Synth).toDestination();
voices.metal = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.MetalSynth).toDestination();
voices.pluck = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.PluckSynth).toDestination();
voices.membrane = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.MembraneSynth).toDestination();
voices.am = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.AMSynth).toDestination();
voices.fm = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.FMSynth).toDestination();
voices.duo = new Tone.PolySynth(Tone.DuoSynth).toDestination();
Tone.Transport.bpm.value=80;
loop = new Tone.Loop((now) => {
sonify(now);
},loopInterval).start(0);
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