PRIVACY-PRESERVING AND TRUTHFUL DETECTION OF PACKET DROPPING ATTACKS IN WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS?

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

                       Link error and malicious packet dropping are two sources for packet losses in multi-hop wireless ad hoc network. In this paper, while observing a sequence of packet losses in the network, we are interested in determining whether the losses are caused by link errors only, or by the combined effect of link errors and malicious drop. We are especially interested in the insider-attack case, whereby malicious nodes that are part of the route exploit their knowledge of the communication context to selectively drop a small amount of packets critical to the network performance. , we develop a homomorphic linear authenticator (HLA) based public auditing architecture that allows the detector to verify the truthfulness of the packet loss information reported by nodes.

PRIVACY-PRESERVING AND TRUTHFUL DETECTION OF PACKET DROPPING ATTACKS IN WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

                                          In a multi-hop wireless network, nodes cooperate in relaying/routing traffic. An adversary can exploit this cooperative nature to launch attacks. For example, the adversary may first pretend to be a cooperative node in the route discovery process. Once being included in a route, the adversary starts dropping packets. In the most severe form, the malicious node simply stops forwarding every packet received from upstream nodes, completely disrupting the path between the source and the destination. Eventually, such a severe denial-of-service (DoS) attack can paralyze the network by partitioning its topology. First, the continuous presence of extremely high packet loss rate at the malicious nodes makes this type of attack easy to be detected. Second, once being detected, these attacks are easy to mitigate.

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