Adaptable Misbehavior Detection and Isolation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Policies

Wireless ad hoc networks provide the communications platform for new technologies and applications, such as vehicular ad hoc networks or wireless mesh networks. However, their multi-hop wireless nature makes them inherently unreliable and vulnerable, since their overall performance depends on the cooperative packet forwarding behavior of each individual node. In this paper, the authors present a role-based approach that uses a distributed management overlay and gathers information about the packet forwarding activities of each node in the network.