Attacks against mobile ad hoc networks routing protocol
Shukor Bin Abd Razak, Steven Furnell, Phillip J. Brooke · 2004
This paper outlines some important issues that relate to security attacks against mobile ad hoc networks from research carried out at Network Research Group, University of Plymouth, on designing intrusion detection system for mobile ad hoc network. In designing security mechanisms for mobile ad hoc networks, one must consider the attacks variations as well as the characteristics of the attacks that could be launched against the ad hoc networks. The discussions of these two aspects are summarized in this paper. This paper also classifies several common attacks against the ad hoc networks routing protocols based upon the techniques that could be used by attackers to exploit routing messages. Those techniques are modification, interception, fabrication, and interruption. The purpose of this study is to investigate some of the important issues that might be related to security attacks in mobile ad hoc networks. In Section II, we see how attacks against the ad hoc networks may vary depending upon in which environment the attacks are launched, what communication layer the attacks are targeting, and what level of ad hoc network mechanisms are targeted. After considering these three variations, it is also important to investigate the characteristics of attacks against the ad hoc networks. This issue is discussed in Section III. In this paper, we give a special attention to attacks that could be launched against the routing protocols. We identified that most of the attacks against ad hoc networks routing protocols are actually launched by exploiting the routing messages, and further classify them based upon the techniques that could be used to exploit routing messages in Section IV. Finally, we conclude our study and present our future work in Section V.