Title: Classification and comparison of IP traceback techniques for DoS/DDoS/DRDoS defence

Authors: Marjan Kuchaki Rafsanjani; Hashem Bagherinezhad

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran ' Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

Abstract: The invention of the internet environment has increased the speed of data transmission, however, the attacks in this environment are growing exponentially. Furthermore, identifying the source of the attacks is very difficult due to the vibrant and anonymous nature of the internet. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are one type of the attacks in this environment that can be done in many forms. Denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) or distributed-reflector-denial-of-service (DRDoS) attacks try to saturate the victim network servers (with external requests) and also, they try to disable its resource for its lawful users. IP traceback is the ability to identify the source of this type of attacks. Thus, IP traceback is an important step to defence against these types of the attacks. Many IP traceback schemes have been presented till now. In this article, we review several presented schemes in the recent decade, and we compare these methods against the predefined metrics that help the researchers to discover the gaps to perform the further research in this area.

Keywords: IP traceback; traceback schemes; packet marking; packet logging; DoS/DDoS/DRDoS defence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2024.141525

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2024 Vol.29 No.1, pp.46 - 71

Received: 30 Jul 2018
Accepted: 23 Oct 2018
Published online: 23 Sep 2024 *

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