8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

Research Article

Securing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Using an Artificial Immune System

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bict.2014.258086,
        author={Ansgar Kellner and Parisa Memarmoshrefi and Dieter Hogrefe},
        title={Securing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Using an Artificial Immune System},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BICT},
        year={2015},
        month={2},
        keywords={ais articial immune systems manet biologically-inspired algorithms network security},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bict.2014.258086}
    }
    
  • Ansgar Kellner
    Parisa Memarmoshrefi
    Dieter Hogrefe
    Year: 2015
    Securing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Using an Artificial Immune System
    BICT
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bict.2014.258086
Ansgar Kellner1, Parisa Memarmoshrefi1,*, Dieter Hogrefe1
  • 1: University of Goettingen
*Contact email: memarmoshrefi@informatik.uni-goettingen.de

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) rely on the fundamental idea that all nodes act cooperatively to transfer data packets via multiple hops from a source to a remote destination. However, apart from the desired behaviour, in reality, malicious nodes can easily join the network and behave maliciously by not correctly participating in the network, e.g. by dropping packets or selectively forwarding packets. To mitigate the effect of malicious nodes in the network, in the first step, the misbehaving nodes must be identified. Based on the idea of biologically-inspired algorithms, in this paper, an artificial immune system is proposed that is able to detect misbehaving nodes in the network.