Effective black hole attacks in MANETs

Black hole or packet drop attack is a denial of service attack on routing protocols in which malicious nodes fabricate routing information, attract packets routed through them and then deliberately drop these packets. Most of the black hole attack simulations are performed by constantly fabricatin...

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Main Authors: Raja Mahmood, Raja Azlina, Mohd Hanapi, Zurina, Hasan, Sazlinah, Khan, AsadIqbal
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Language:English
Published: Science Publications 2013
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author Raja Mahmood, Raja Azlina
Mohd Hanapi, Zurina
Hasan, Sazlinah
Khan, AsadIqbal
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Mohd Hanapi, Zurina
Hasan, Sazlinah
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description Black hole or packet drop attack is a denial of service attack on routing protocols in which malicious nodes fabricate routing information, attract packets routed through them and then deliberately drop these packets. Most of the black hole attack simulations are performed by constantly fabricating routing information and thus consistently attracting packets to them, which can be easily detected by the intrusion detection system.In this study, a complicated and difficult to detect black hole attack is proposed. The malicious nodes only perform packet drop when they are in the advantageous positions or locations in the networks. This study investigates the impact of the proposed black hole attack performed by random as well as critical nodes, to the network performance. Critical nodes are nodes that reside along the most active traffic paths and results show that the attacks performed by these nodes cause significant damage to the networks or substantial reduction in packet delivery ratio in comparison to that of random nodes.
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spelling upm-305902015-10-29T08:07:46Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30590/ Effective black hole attacks in MANETs Raja Mahmood, Raja Azlina Mohd Hanapi, Zurina Hasan, Sazlinah Khan, AsadIqbal Black hole or packet drop attack is a denial of service attack on routing protocols in which malicious nodes fabricate routing information, attract packets routed through them and then deliberately drop these packets. Most of the black hole attack simulations are performed by constantly fabricating routing information and thus consistently attracting packets to them, which can be easily detected by the intrusion detection system.In this study, a complicated and difficult to detect black hole attack is proposed. The malicious nodes only perform packet drop when they are in the advantageous positions or locations in the networks. This study investigates the impact of the proposed black hole attack performed by random as well as critical nodes, to the network performance. Critical nodes are nodes that reside along the most active traffic paths and results show that the attacks performed by these nodes cause significant damage to the networks or substantial reduction in packet delivery ratio in comparison to that of random nodes. Science Publications 2013-12-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30590/1/Effective%20black%20hole%20attacks%20in%20MANETs.pdf Raja Mahmood, Raja Azlina and Mohd Hanapi, Zurina and Hasan, Sazlinah and Khan, AsadIqbal (2013) Effective black hole attacks in MANETs. Journal of Computer Science, 9 (12). pp. 1722-1733. ISSN 1549-3636; ESSN: 1552-6607 10.3844/jcssp.2013.1722.1733
spellingShingle Raja Mahmood, Raja Azlina
Mohd Hanapi, Zurina
Hasan, Sazlinah
Khan, AsadIqbal
Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title_full Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title_fullStr Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title_full_unstemmed Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title_short Effective black hole attacks in MANETs
title_sort effective black hole attacks in manets
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30590/1/Effective%20black%20hole%20attacks%20in%20MANETs.pdf