Dissertation
Hardware assisted misbehaving nodes detection in mobile ad hoc networks
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
08/2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005763
Abstract
The mobility feature leads to the proliferation of wireless networks. Among all kinds
of wireless networks, the peer-to-peer nature of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET)
makes such networks very promising. Unlike traditional wired networks, MANETs do
not need infrastructure to work properly. The most commonly used routing protocols for
mobile ad hoc networks do not take into consideration security, assuming all the mobile
nodes will coordinate with each other. Such routing protocols along with the absence of
infrastructure make MANETs prone to a variety of faults such as packet dropping, packet
misrouting, etc.
This dissertation addresses the security issues of MANET by presenting the hardware
assisted misbehaving nodes detection. In such a scheme, the hardware is responsible for
detecting the misbehaving nodes. The detection results are sent to software layer of
mobile nodes. Upon receiving the detection results, the software layer can exclude the
misbehaving nodes from the networks.
This dissertation presents two hardware detection schemes. Two-timer is a low-cost
detection scheme. There are only two timers utilized in the scheme. The two-timer
scheme can be used to detect simple packet dropping with good detection performance.
The other detection scheme, cache scheme, can detect both packet dropping and packet
misrouting. The cache scheme needs more resource than the two-timer scheme along
with better detection performance.
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- Title
- Hardware assisted misbehaving nodes detection in mobile ad hoc networks
- Creators
- Hongxun Liu
- Contributors
- Jose G Delgado-Frias (Chair) - Washington State University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceSirisha Medidi (Co-Chair)Murali Medidi (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 111
- Identifiers
- 99901054758301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation