Research Article
A Cross-layer Dropping Attack in Video Streaming over Ad Hoc Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1460877.1460909, author={Min Shao and Sencun Zhu and Guohong Cao and Tom La Porta and Prasant Mohapatra}, title={A Cross-layer Dropping Attack in Video Streaming over Ad Hoc Networks}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2008}, month={9}, keywords={Cross-layer Dropping Attack Security Video Streaming Ad Hoc Networks}, doi={10.1145/1460877.1460909} }- Min Shao
Sencun Zhu
Guohong Cao
Tom La Porta
Prasant Mohapatra
Year: 2008
A Cross-layer Dropping Attack in Video Streaming over Ad Hoc Networks
SECURECOMM
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1460877.1460909
Abstract
Significant progress has been made to achieve video streaming over wireless ad hoc networks. However, there is not much work on providing security. Is existing security solution good enough for securing video streaming over ad hoc networks? In this paper, we discover a cross-layer dropping attack against video streaming. We first identify a general IP layer dropping attack and then reveal its destructive impact by leveraging the application layer information (e.g., video streaming). Through simulations, we quantify the impact of this attack as a function of several performance parameters such as delivery ratio, hop number and the number of attackers. The surprising result with this attack is that with a 94% delivery ratio, the receiver still cannot watch the video! We also propose several possible solutions to address the dropping attacks. Due to the unique characteristics of this attack, as long as malicious nodes exist, the network will suffer from this dropping attack.