Research Article
A denial-of-service resistant quality-of-service signaling protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/QSHINE.2005.1, author={M. Hejmo and B.L. Mark and C. Zouridaki and R.K. Thomas}, title={A denial-of-service resistant quality-of-service signaling protocol for mobile ad hoc networks}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2005}, month={12}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/QSHINE.2005.1} }- M. Hejmo
B.L. Mark
C. Zouridaki
R.K. Thomas
Year: 2005
A denial-of-service resistant quality-of-service signaling protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
QSHINE
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/QSHINE.2005.1
Abstract
Quality-of-service (QoS) signaling protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are highly vulnerable to attacks. In particular, a class of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks can severely cripple network performance with relatively little effort expended by the attacker. We propose a distributed QoS signaling protocol that is resistant to a large class of DoS attacks. The key elements of the scheme are: sensing of available bandwidth, traffic policing, and rate monitoring. The proposed signaling scheme provides QoS for real-time traffic and achieves a compromise between signaling protocols that require the maintenance of per-flow state and those that are completely stateless. The signaling scheme scales gracefully in terms of the number of nodes and/or traffic flows in the MANET. We analyze the key security properties of the protocol and present simulation results to demonstrate its resistance to DoS attacks