3rd International ICST Symposium on Information Assurance and Security

Research Article

On Detecting Packets Droppers in MANET: A Novel Low Cost Approach

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/IAS.2007.47,
        author={ Tarag  Fahad and Djamel Djenouri and Robert Askwith},
        title={On Detecting Packets Droppers in MANET: A Novel Low Cost Approach},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Symposium on  Information Assurance and Security},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={IAS},
        year={2007},
        month={9},
        keywords={Batteries  Costs  Mobile ad hoc networks  Mobile communication  Monitoring  Power control  Protocols  Relays  Routing  Wireless communication},
        doi={10.1109/IAS.2007.47}
    }
    
  • Tarag Fahad
    Djamel Djenouri
    Robert Askwith
    Year: 2007
    On Detecting Packets Droppers in MANET: A Novel Low Cost Approach
    IAS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.47
Tarag Fahad1,*, Djamel Djenouri2,*, Robert Askwith1,*
  • 1: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
  • 2: CERIST, Basic Software Laboratory, Algiers, Algeria.
*Contact email: T.M.Fahad@2006.ljmu.ac.uk, ddjenouri@mail.cerist.dz, R.J.Askwith@ljmu.ac.uk

Abstract

One of the commonest threats that mobile ad hoc networks are vulnerable to is data packet dropping, which is caused either by malicious or selfish nodes. Most of the existing solutions to solve such misbehaviour rely on the watchdog technique, which suffers from many drawbacks, particularly when using the power control technique. To overcome this problem with a moderate communication overhead, this paper introduces a new approach for detecting misbehaving nodes that drop data packets in MANET. It consists of two stages the monitoring stage in which each node monitors its direct neighbours with respect to forwarding data packets of a traffic session in the network, and the decision stage, in which direct neighbouring nodes decide whether the monitored node misbehave or not. Our new approach is able to detect the misbehaviour in case of power control employment, with a low communication overhead compared to the existing approaches.