Policy-based Malicious Peer Detection in Ad Hoc Networks

Authors: Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin

Book Title: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2009)

Date: August 29, 2009

Abstract: Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are susceptible to various node misbehaviors due to their unique features, such as highly dynamic network topology, rigorous power constraints and error-prone transmission media. Significant research efforts have been made to address the problem of misbehavior detection. However, little research work has been done to distinguish truly malicious behaviors from the faulty behaviors. Both the malicious behaviors and the faulty behaviors are generally equally treated as misbehaviors without any further investigation by most of the traditional misbehavior detection mechanisms. In this paper, we propose and develop a policy-based malicious peer detection mechanism, in which context information, such as communication channel status, buffer status, and transmission power level, is collected and then used to determine whether the misbehavior is likely a result of malicious activity or not. Simulation results illustrate that the policy-based malicious peer

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

Pages: 76-82

Volume: 3

Tags: security, networking, manet, policy

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