An algebraic approach to IP traceback
Drew Dean, Matthew K. Franklin, Adam Stubblefield · ACM Transactions on Information and System Security · 2002
We present a new solution to the problem of determining the path a packet traversed over the Internet (called the traceback problem) during a denial-of-service attack. This article reframes the traceback problem as a polynomial reconstruction problem and uses algebraic techniques from coding theory and learning theory to provide robust methods of transmission and reconstruction.