An Energy‐Efficient Technique to Combat DOS Attacks in Delay Tolerant Networks

Cruickshank, HS (2012) An Energy‐Efficient Technique to Combat DOS Attacks in Delay Tolerant Networks ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments journal, 12 (1-3).

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Abstract

A delay tolerant network is a highly constrained networking environment which is low in resources such as memory, bandwidth and battery power. In opportunistic DTNs, nodes cooperatively forward packets for each other through the carry-store-and-forward paradigm. Opportunistic data forwarding can be abused by an adversary by injecting spurious packets in order to waste the resources of the network. To guard against such attacks, it is important to authenticate packets at intermediate nodes. Packet authentication in itself comes with overheads such as computation cost and energy consumption which can be exploited by an attacker to mount a denial of service attack. We propose the use of light-weight DTN-cookies to protect this vital security service from such malicious exploitation. We show through simulations that our proposed mechanisms can improve network performance and save considerable amount of power even in the presence of attackers.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering > Centre for Communication Systems Research
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Cruickshank, HS
Date :	1 March 2012
DOI :	10.4108/trans.ubienv.2012.e6
Contributors :	Contribution Name Email ORCID http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/EDT Ansa, G http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/EDT Sun, Z
Uncontrolled Keywords :	DTN, DoS, InterDomain and IntraDomain attacks
Additional Information :	Copyright © 2011 Ansa et al., licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	14 Dec 2012 09:47
Last Modified :	31 Oct 2017 14:47
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/729999

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