This attack was previously denoted an open problem in
ICN, only heuristic countermeasures available.[vague][3] In 2016, Aubrey Alston and Tamer Refaei of
The MITRE Corporation presented an exact solution to this problem which utilizes an in-packet cryptographic mechanism to remove the ability of high-volume Interest traffic to overload the distribution infrastructure of the network.[4]
^Alston, Aubrey; Refaei, Tamer (2016). "Neutralizing Interest Flooding Attacks in Named Data Networks using Cryptographic Route Tokens". Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). Cambridge, MA: IEEE. pp. 85–88.
doi:
10.1109/NCA.2016.7778598.