Defense Against Packet Injection in Ad Hoc Networks

• Main Authors: GU, Qijun, LIU, Peng, CHU, Chao-Hsien, ZHU, Sencun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: packet injection; source authentication; secure forwarding; denial of service; DoS attacks; ad hoc networks; wireless networks; security; junk data packets; Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1785; http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSN.2007.012832
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Wireless ad hoc networks have very limited network resources and are thus susceptible to attacks that focus on resource exhaustion, such as the injection of junk packets. These attacks cause serious denial-of-service via wireless channel contention and network congestion. Although ad hoc network sec...