A proposal for new marking scheme with its performance evaluation for IP traceback

  • Authors:
  • S. Malliga;A. Tamilarasi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamilnadu, India;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamilnadu, India

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Detecting and defeating Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is one of the hardest security problems on IP networks. Furthermore, spoofing of IP packets makes it difficult to combat against and fix such attacks. Packet marking is one of the methods to mitigate the DoS attack that helps traceback to the true origin of the packets. A hybrid packet marking algorithm, along with traceback mechanism to find the true origin of the attack traffic is presented in this study. The router marks the packets with inbound interface identifier of the router, but the novelty lies on the way it marks the packets. The stamping based on modulo technique and reverse modulo for the purpose reconstruction of attack path to traceback to the real source of the packets are proposed. The experimental measurements on the presented algorithm ensure that it requires less amount of time to mark and reconstruct the attack graph. It is also able to trace back to single packet, nevertheless it requires logging at very few routers and thus incurring insignificant storage overhead on the routers. The simulation study and the qualitative comparison with different traceback schemes are also presented to show the performance of the proposed system.