Overview on Depletion Attacks Hindering Network Efficiency
Tanneru Venkata Lavanya, B. Vinoth Kumar · IJITR International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research - IJITR International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research · 2015
Traditional works on secure routing attempts to make sure those adversaries cannot make discovering of path for returning an unacceptable network path. In our work, we define Vampire attacks, which denote a novel class of resource consumption attacks that utilize routing protocols to block ad hoc networks by means of reduction of nodes’ battery power. Vampire attacks are most general attacks of resource depletion where the energy which is consumed by network for composing and transmitting a message is superior when evaluated to that of an ordinary network. Our work considers of attack-resistant minimal-energy routing, where adversary objective includes lessening energy savings. Vampire attacks are not specific to protocol, and do not depend on design properties of routing protocols, however rather make use of general properties of protocol classes. These attacks neither depend on flooding the network with huge amounts of data; however try to transmit as little data as promising to attain major energy drain, avoiding a rate limiting explanation. Vampire attacks interrupts functioning of a network instantly rather than work overtime to completely stop a network. These types of attacks are not dependant on exact protocols but to certain extent expose vulnerabilities in several accepted protocol classes.