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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Bryan J. Martin, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Murali Tummala, Monterey, CA (US);
John C. McEachen, Carmel, CA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an apparatus and method for the detection of multi-homed hosts on a computer network utilizing a network comprising a plurality of host computers and a central host. Each host computer has one or more network interfaces and transmits TCP packets over the network to the other hosts and the central host. The central host monitors exchanged traffic and sorts received timestamped TCP packets by source address, and utilizes the sorted packets to determine a clock skew associated with each source address. Generally the host computer conducts this process over multiple iterations and provides a representative clock skew, with the representative clock skew typically bounded by a confidence interval determined through probability distribution fitting. The apparatus and method compares the representative clock skews to determine similarity and identify potentially multi-homed hosts.