Paper Info
Title
Denial of service resilience in ad hoc networks
Abstract
Significant progress has been made towards making ad hoc networks secure and DoS resilient. However, little attention has been focused on quantifying DoS resilience: Do ad hoc networks have sufficiently redundant paths and counter-DoS mechanisms to make DoS attacks largely ineffective? Or are there attack and system factors that can lead to devastating effects? In this paper, we design and study DoS attacks in order to assess the damage that difficult-to-detect attackers can cause. The first attack we study, called the JellyFish attack, is targeted against closed-loop flows such as TCP; although protocol compliant, it has devastating effects. The second is the Black Hole attack, which has effects similar to the JellyFish, but on open-loop flows. We quantify via simulations and analytical modeling the scalability of DoS attacks as a function of key performance parameters such as mobility, system size, node density, and counter-DoS strategy. One perhaps surprising result is that such DoS attacks can increase the capacity of ad hoc networks, as they starve multi-hop flows and only allow one-hop communication, a capacity-maximizing, yet clearly undesirable situation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1023720.1023741
MobiCom
Keywords
Field
DocType
jellyfish attack,dos attack,service resilience,system size,system factor,counter-dos mechanism,difficult-to-detect attacker,black hole attack,quantifying dos resilience,counter-dos strategy,devastating effect,tcp,ad hoc networks,udp,black hole,denial of service,ad hoc network,dos attacks
Psychological resilience,Denial-of-service attack,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-868-7
103
6.84
References 
Authors
29
3
Search Limit
100103
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Imad Aad11150104.13
J. -P. Hubaux210006772.23
Edward W. Knightly34763371.38