Security Issues in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
01 Jan 2013-pp 49-80
TL;DR: This chapter Reviews the security problem in MANET provides an updated account of the security solutions for MANET with detailed discussions on secure routing, intrusion detection system and key management problems.
Abstract: Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) are infrastructure-less networks characterized by lack of prior configuration and the hostile environments. Their unique properties make them a natural candidate for situations where unplanned network establishment is required. However this flexibility leads to a number of security challenges. Security in MANET is a very complex job and requires considerations on the issues spanning across all the layers of communication stack. This chapter reviews the security problem in MANET. It provides an updated account of the security solutions for MANET with detailed discussions on secure routing, intrusion detection system and key management problems. The chapter is concluded with a comprehensive security solution for MANET.
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TL;DR: This survey analyzes existing routing protocols and mechanisms to secure routing communications in IoT, as well as the open research issues and analyzes the open challenges and strategies for future research work for a better secure IoT routing.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The main vulnerabilities in the mobile ad hoc networks, which have made it much easier to suffer from attacks than the traditional wired network, are analyzed.
Abstract: In this paper, we discuss security issues and their current solutions in the mobile ad hoc network. Owe to the vulnerable nature of the mobile ad hoc network, there are numerous security threats that disturb the development of it. We first analyze the main vulnerabilities in the mobile ad hoc networks, which have made it much easier to suffer from attacks than the traditional wired network. Then we discuss the security criteria of the mobile ad hoc network and present the main attack types that exist in it. Finally we survey the current security solutions for the mobile ad hoc network.
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TL;DR: This review provides an overview of MANet based routing protocols employed for communication during SAR operations and provides taxonomy on communication strategies of MANETs during disaster and emergency situation.
Abstract: Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are defined as a collection of wireless mobile nodes that are characterized as independent, dynamic, self-adaptive and infrastructure less. This mobility and dynamic in nature of MANET urge for new set of networking strategies to be implemented so as to provide efficient communication during natural disaster. Mobile crowd management is yet an emerging new exploration for search and rescue (SAR) operations. The phase of catastrophic management has communication to play a vital role. In MANETs, the end nodes communicate through the TCP/IP protocol. The layers of TCP/IP model change frequently due to mobility and resource overhead. This makes routing in MANETs one of the challenging research area. This review provides an overview of MANET based routing protocols employed for communication during SAR operations. The main purpose of this survey is to provide taxonomy on communication strategies of MANETs during disaster and emergency situation. Furthermore, this paper examines the existing MANET based SAR techniques and the significant contribution made by researches in the past few years based upon routing protocol, communication techniques, type of infrastructure and phase of disaster management.
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TL;DR: Classification of denial of service attack is made and the key differences among black hole, sequence number based gray-hole and smartgray-hole attack are highlighted and it is found that the impact of the smart gray- hole attack is low as compared with the sequence numberbased gray-holes attack.
Abstract: The recent development in wireless communication technology and portable devices has led to the development of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network which has unique features such as dynamic topology, open wireless medium, decentralized system etc but these network are susceptible to various denial of service attacks such as black hole, gray-hole, worm hole etc. In order to mitigate black-hole attack, various protocols have been proposed but these protocols have been not analyzed under gray-hole attack. In this paper, we have made classification of denial of service attack and highlighted the key differences among black hole, sequence number based gray-hole and smart gray-hole attack. We simulated two types of attacks namely Attack1 and Attack2 by modifying AODV protocol. The Attack1 (GAODV) is sequence number based gray-hole attack protocol whereas Attack2 (SGAODV) is smart gray-hole attack protocol. In order to observe the impact of gray-hole attacks on AODV, IDS-AODV and MBDP-AODV, NS-2.35 simulator is used. The simulation results show that MBDP-AODV performs well as compared with IDS-AODV and AODV under sequence number based gray-hole attack. Through simulation, it has also been found that the impact of the smart gray-hole attack is low as compared with the sequence number based gray-hole attack.
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01 Aug 2016
TL;DR: The proposed framework is based on the successful interactions between the IoT sensor nodes, which effectively is a reflection of their trustworthy behavior, and is a lightweight secure trust-based routing framework to identify and isolate common routing attacks in IoT networks.
Abstract: This research proposes a conceptual framework for achieving a secure Internet of Things (IoT) routing that will enforce confidentiality and integrity during the routing process in IoT networks. With billions of IoT devices likely to be interconnected globally, the big issue is how to secure the routing of data in the underlying networks from various forms of attacks. Users will not feel secure if they know their private data could easily be accessed and compromised by unauthorized individuals or machines over the network. It is within this context that we present the design of SecTrust, a lightweight secure trust-based routing framework to identify and isolate common routing attacks in IoT networks. The proposed framework is based on the successful interactions between the IoT sensor nodes, which effectively is a reflection of their trustworthy behavior.
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