A Survey of Resource Draining Attacks and Mitigation in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
S.R.C.O.E.M, Rashmi Jangre, Rashmi R. Welekar · International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology · 2014
Abstract-- Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks has become crucial for everyday functioning of people and organizations. Due to their ad-hoc organization they are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. The most permanent DoS attack is to entirely exhaust nodes’ batteries, called “Vampire ” Attacks. These vampire attacks are not impacting any specific kind of protocols. Detection of vampire attacks in the network is not easy. A single Vampire may even increase network energy usage by a factor of O(N),where N is the number of network nodes. We discuss existing routing protocols to mitigate resource draining attacks. Keywords--ad-hoc, denial-of-service, sensor networks, wireless.