DoS Attacker Identification in MANET IPv6 Using ICMPv6
S. Feslin Anish Mon, Raj Kumar Saha, L. Rajaji · 2012
Internet became a source of information which is convenient for any user to access it anywhere. This accessibility makes it extremely vulnerable to enthused and well-equipped users intent on disrupting the flow of information or using it for personal gain. The Internet is becoming the pervasive means of communications for data in particular. However, its pervasiveness has also generated many security problems, such as authentication, data confidentiality, data integrity, intrusion etc., among which, Denial-of-service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) pose significant problems, as they are disruptive to the useful traffics and are hard to prevent. In a mobile ad-hoc networks, where the nodes are typically devices with limited bandwidth, computational resources, battery power and unpredictable routing topology, additional constraint is placed on detection and tracing technique to locate the attack sources efficiently(1). In this paper an overview is made on the issues of trace back in the context of IPv6 and mobile IPv6. A technique has been proposed then which consists of ICMPV6v6 Trace back with Cumulative path (ITrace-CP), and thereby retrieves the entire attack path information in the ICMPV6 trace back message to facilitate the trace back mechanism in a mobile ad hoc network(1).