File carving is a technique used to recover data from a digital device without the help of file system metadata. The current file carvers use techniques such as using a list of header and footer values and key word searching to retrieve the information specific to a file type. These techniques tend to fail when the files to be recovered are fragmented. Recovering the fragmented files is one of the primary challenges faced by file carving. In this research we focus on Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3 files. MP3 is one of the most widely used file formats for storing audio data. We develop a technique which uses the MP3 file structure information to improve the performance of file carvers in reconstructing fragmented MP3 data. This technique uses a large number of MP3 files and performs statistical analysis on the bitrates of these files.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uno.edu/oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2241 |
| Date | 17 December 2010 |
| Creators | Sajja, Abhilash |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UNO |
| Source Sets | University of New Orleans |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations |
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