Looking for benchmarking methodologies.

Hello. I'm looking benchmarking methodologies that assess the effectiveness of 
network defence systems such as IDS.

I'm doing an honours project that involves designing a standardised form of 
benchmarking for router based defences against ddos bandwidth attacks. 

At the moment my research is bringing up the IBM testbed, UC Davis and DARPA. 
Along with techniques such as false positives, quantative measurements for 
accuracy, etc.

I'm hoping anyone here could inform me of areas to research that may lead to 
the development of a standardised offline method of benchmarking performance. 
Most likely measuring against some form of non-superficial baselines.

If I need to provide more information I will do. My research is uncovering 
benchmarking that I feel is not something that can allow a quick solution to 
comparisons between the effectiveness of defence systems. And being a student, 
my critisiscm has no credibility so I need papers to back my ideas.