Security Issues In Mobile Ad hoc Network Routing Protocols
Philip Huynh · 2009
ion Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is gaining importance with increasing number of applications. It can be used for emergency and rescue operation, conferences and campus settings, airport and car networks, and other more. Multi hop routing protocols are designed for MANET to provide services same as the layer three, Networking, in the OSI network model. Because the multi hop routing protocols are used to exchange packets between mobile nodes, they are usual the target for the attacking to the MANET. Adversary can increase the adversarial control over the communications between some nodes, decrease the quality of services of the network, or increase the energy consumption of some nodes by having the compromised nodes to attack the routing protocols. The routes between some nodes could be deleted or changed from the original purposes of the routing protocols. This report expresses some security issues in the multi hop routing protocols of MANET as well as the countermeasures against the attacks. Some attacks were simulated on the computer to help research the countermeasure methods.