An Efficient Collaborative Traceback Scheme Based on Packet Digests Logging

Abstract

It is important for us to determine the source of the Attack, when we want to defend against the malicious actions, such as (D)DoS. Log-based technology is to log the packets information, which can mean how the packets traverse the network. Source Path Isolation Engine (SPIE) is a great development in log-based technology, but it still has some shortages. In this paper, we proposed a collaborative traceback scheme based on packet digests (DCTS) to improve the SPIE, which can reduce the impact to network status introduced by the process of traceback efficiently. Then we evaluated the performance of the scheme in the paper.