A Flooding Attack Detection and Mitigation Technique in Wireless Sensor Networks
Makul Mahajan, Salil Batra, Simarjit Singh Malhi, Gursharan Singh · 2023
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are made up of sensor nodes with a finite supply of energy that cooperate to accomplish a common goal. WSNs are widely used to carry out a variety of monitoring duties in challenging environments that are difficult to reach and even dangerous. The distributed nature of WSNs makes them vulnerable to a wide range of physical attacks, including eavesdropping, Sybil attacks, node replication attacks, signal or radio jamming, denial of service (DoS) attacks, flooding attacks, node outages, and DoS attacks. In order to stop communicating between source and destination, the flooding outbreak attacks the network with unwarranted bogus route requests. The goal of a data flooding attack is to obstruct the communication between source and destination by flooding the network with an overwhelming amount of useless data packets. Using the networks simulator NS 2.33, this research study has assessed and compared the suggested technique FDMM with native AODV and current state-of-the-art protocols. On an average, the proposed algorithm shows 1.34% and 0.18% increase in PDF, 6.03% and 5.47% increase in throughput, 1.93% and 0.54% increase in average residual energy, 3.30% and 4.09% decrease in end to end delay when compared with state-of-the-art algorithms.