Byzantine Attacks and its Security Measures in Mobile Adhoc Networks
International journal of computing, communication and instrumentation engineering · 2016
Mobile Adhoc networks(MANETs) are gaining popularity due its rapid deployment nature and ease to establish without any pre requirements.These are widely used in enormous number of applications especially in military and disaster recovery areas where secured communication is most important.Due to the medium used by it, resource limitation and dynamic topology ,it is more prone to variety of security attacks.Among them the attack by the insider compromised nodes namely byzantine attacks are very hard to predict and more dangerous.It reduces the overall network performance by affecting the trusted routing in various manners.The byzantine nodes drops the packets selectively ,pretend to be an intended intermediate node and so on and thereby challenges the reliability of the network and the participating nodes.This paper tries to discuss the major types of routing protocols ,types of security attacks, byzantine attacks and its types, and analyse the foremost categories of solutions suggested by the researchers to mitigate the byzantine attacks in the field.