Secure on Demand Multicast Routing for Network Attacks in Wireless Mesh Network

DOI

10.2991/pecteam-18.2018.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Routing, wireless networks, multicast, Network security , mesh network.

Abstract

Multicast routing in wireless mesh networks can be accomplished based on link quality metrics to maximize throughput. Nodes must collaborate in order to compute the path metric and forward data. The assumption that all nodes are honest and behave correctly during metric computation, propagation, and aggregation, as well as during data forwarding, leads to unexpected consequences in adversarial networks where compromised nodes act maliciously. In this work, novel attacks against high throughput multicast protocols in wireless mesh networks. The attacks exploit the local estimation and global aggregation of the metric to allow attackers to attract a large amount of traffic. We show that these attacks are very effective against multicast protocols based on high-throughput metrics. Aggressive path selection is a double-edged sword: While it maximizes throughput, it also increases attack effectiveness in the absence of defense mechanisms. Approach to defend against the identified attacks combines measurement based detection and accusation based reaction techniques based on packet delivery ratio and throughput.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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