Probabilistic Packet Marking algorithm suggests a methodology to identify all the participated routers of the attack path by probabilistically marking the packets. In this approach, these marked packets contain partial information regarding the routers of the attack path. At receiver, to get the complete information of every router, it requires more number of marked packets and hence more combinations and more false positives. To overcome this drawback we have presented a novel idea in finding the exact IP address of the routers in the attack path by applying Chinese Remainder Theorem. The result of our implementation reveals that our idea requires less number of marked packets and takes no time in constructing the attack path. The same idea is true even in the case of multiple attackers. Ó 2014 Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Denial of service (DOS) attack is one of the most common attacks on the internet. The most difficult part of this attack is to find the source of the denial of service (DOS) attack. Savage et al. proposed PPM algorithm to traceback the route to the attacker. We found two disadvantages of the Savage traceback technique. The first disadvantage is probability of finding of far away routers is very less which results in losing some of the routers identity. This affects the attack graph construction. The second disadvantage is, because of re-marking of the edges the constructed graph contain new edges which do not exist in attack graph. In this paper, we propose a modified probabilistic packet marking (MPPM) IP traceback methodology and we found that the results are quite interesting when compared with the approach proposed by Savage.
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