Provided by:
International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology
Topic:
Networking
Format:
PDF
Without the management of centralized unit, Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are vulnerable to security threats from flooding attacks launched through compromised nodes or intruder. Whenever a source node needs a data session with a destination node, it disseminates a Route REQuest (RREQ) message to its neighbors in a hop-by-hop manner. A crucial type of flooding attacks called RREQ flooding appears to be inevitably proliferated in wireless networks. Within the RREQ flooding attack, attackers would launch immense RREQ packets with out-of-domain IP address as its destination node.
