2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A New Solution for Resisting Gray Hole Attack in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469403,
        author={Chen Wei and Long Xiang and Bai Yuebin and Gao Xiaopeng},
        title={A New Solution for Resisting Gray Hole Attack in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={DoS  ad hoc networks  aggregate signature  gossip algorithm  ns-2},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469403}
    }
    
  • Chen Wei
    Long Xiang
    Bai Yuebin
    Gao Xiaopeng
    Year: 2008
    A New Solution for Resisting Gray Hole Attack in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469403
Chen Wei1,*, Long Xiang1,*, Bai Yuebin1,*, Gao Xiaopeng1,*
  • 1: School of Computer Science Beihang University Beijing, China
*Contact email: buaacst@hotmail.com, long@buaa.edu.cn, byb@buaa.edu.cn, gxp@buaa.edu.cn

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks are vulnerable to various types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks for the absence of fixed network infrastructure. The Gray Hole attack is a type of DoS attacks. In this attack, an adversary silently drops some or all of the data packets sent to it for further forwarding even when no congestion occurs. In this paper, a new solution against the Gray Hole attack is proposed. The proposal is consisted of two related algorithms: the key management algorithm based on gossip protocol and the detection algorithm based on aggregate signatures. The simulation results using ns-2 show that in a moderately changing network, most of the malicious nodes could be detected, the routing packet overhead was low, and the packet delivery rate has been improved.