Title
Vulnerabilities in Epidemic Forwarding
Abstract
We identify vulnerabilities in epidemic forwarding. We address broadcast applications over wireless ad-hoc networks. Epidemic forwarding employes several mechanisms such as inhibition and spread control, and each of them can be implemented using alternative methods. Thus, the existence of vulnerabilities is highly dependent on the methods used. We examine the links between them. We classify vulnerabilities into two categories: maliccious and rational. We examine the effect of the attacks according to the number of attackers and the different network settings such as density, mobility and congestion. We show that malicious attacks are hard to achieve and their impacts are scenario dependent. In contrast, rational attackers always obtain a significant benefit. The evaluation is carried out using detailed realistic simulations over networks with up to 1000 nodes. We consider static scenarios, as well as vehicular networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351690
2007 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
java,ad hoc networks,tellurium,throughput,adaptive control,vanet,security
Broadcasting,Wireless,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Adaptive control,Wireless ad hoc network,Throughput,Java,Vehicular ad hoc network,Vulnerability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-0992-1
4
0.63
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alaeddine El Fawal1755.83
Jean-Yves Le Boudec25075471.48
Kavé Salamatian3104090.20