Analysis of Area-congestion-based DDoS Attacks in Ad Hoc Networks

• Main Authors: GU, Qijun, LIU, Peng, CHU, Chao-Hsien
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Ad hoc network; Security; Congestion; Distributed denial of service; Denial of service; Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1784; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2006.04.002
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Increased instances of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet have raised questions on whether and how ad hoc networks are vulnerable to such attacks. This paper studies the special properties of such attacks in ad hoc networks. We examine two types of area-congestion-based DDo...