A novel mechanism to secure internal attacks in HWMP routing protocol

Ben‐Othman, Jalel; Claude, J.-P.; Benitez, Yesica Imelda Saavedra

doi:10.1109/icc.2012.6364045

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“…As in every new approach, it is necessary to compare the OBTA approach with others existed in the litterature. Because OBTA is the first IP traceback solution implemented in the data link layer by modifying HWMP protocol, we choose another solution in security field named HWMP‐WATCHDOG, which can be compared with our solution as it works at the HWMP level. This solution is able to prevent an attack on the internal nodes and to exclude them from network operations.…”

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Deployment and validation of out of band IP traceback approach (OBTA) in wireless mesh network

Gassara

Bouabidi

Zarai

et al. 2018

Int J Communication

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Summary Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have acquired recently enormous attention and momentum; therefore, security aspects have been a fundamental concern for them. Among catastrophic threats on WMNs, Denial‐of‐Service attacks that have become a severe danger because of their plug‐and‐play structural design. Unfortunately, preventing a Denial‐of‐Service attack presents a challenging issue. This fact is induced with the appearance of the source IP addresses spoofing. The resolution key of this issue is to reveal the attack source based on the path through which the attack packet passes. For this, many researchers in IP traceability field propose various methods and techniques to deal with the issue. In this article, we conceive a novel approach named out of band IP traceback approach in WMN (IEEE 802.11s). We create a new architecture using signaling messages for discovering the real source(s) of IP packets. Our solution is based on a security‐oriented signaling protocol. This protocol allows specialized signaling entities to communicate via reliable signaling information. This fact permits us to perform a simple and efficient traceback. In our novel approach, we use 2 radios: the first one transmits normal data packets whereas the second is reserved to exchange IP traceback information. The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed via simulation analysis using the Network Simulator 3. The simulation results show that our scheme is efficient in dealing with the traceback problem in WMN environments.

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Section: Simulation Procedures and Interpretations Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deployment and validation of out of band IP traceback approach (OBTA) in wireless mesh network

Gassara

Bouabidi

Zarai

et al. 2018

Int J Communication

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“…RCMs have been widely studied in various fields of distributed networks to support secure and trustworthy communications and collaborations among participants [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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“…Ben-Othman et al [8] presented a new mechanism called HWMP-Watchdog, which is a reputation model at the network layer that combines the benefits of HWMP and Watchdog techniques to detect and exclude malicious nodes during the path-selection process and protect against internal attacks in the HWMP Routing Protocol. Luo et al [9] proposed RFSTrust, a trust model based on fuzzy recommendation similarity to quantify and evaluate the trustworthiness of nodes at the network layer.…”

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“…As a key scheme for managing trust, the reputation computation model (RCM) has been introduced as an effective approach to characterize and quantify nodes' behaviors for MWNs. Although a number of RCMs and reputation-based trust functions for MWNs have been proposed in the literature, all existing RCMs were based on the direct observation of layer-specifics to evaluate the node reputation, thus ignoring many key factors of reputation in other layers [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] such as node forwarding behaviors at the network layer, channel collisions at the MAC layer, channel quality measures at the physical layer and node access behaviors at the application layer. Moreover, they did not take into account the bad mouthing attack where attackers provide dishonest recommendations to frame up good parties and/or boost trust values of malicious peers.…”

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“…Moreover, they did not take into account the bad mouthing attack where attackers provide dishonest recommendations to frame up good parties and/or boost trust values of malicious peers. For example, Ben-Othman et al [8] presented a new mechanism named Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) Watchdog at the network layer, which is a reputation model that combines the benefits of HWMP and Watchdog techniques to detect and exclude malicious nodes during the path-selection process and to protect against internal attacks. However, it only focused on the flooding and modification attacks.…”

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Lin¹,

Hu²,

Ma³

et al. 2014

The Computer Journal

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Multi-hop wireless networks (MWNs) have been widely accepted as an indispensable component of next-generation communication systems due to their broad applications and easy deployment without relying on any infrastructure. Although showing huge benefits, MWNs face many security problems, especially the internal multi-layer security threats being one of the most challenging issues. Since most security mechanisms require the cooperation of nodes, characterizing and learning actions of neighboring nodes and the evolution of these actions over time is vital to construct an efficient and robust solution for security-sensitive applications such as social networking, mobile banking, and teleconferencing. In this paper, we propose a new dynamic cross-layer reputation computation model named CRM to dynamically characterize and quantify actions of nodes. CRM couples uncertainty based conventional layered reputation computation model with cross-layer design and multi-level security technology to identify malicious nodes and preserve security against internal multi-layer threats. Simulation results and performance analyses demonstrate that CRM can provide rapid and accurate malicious node identification and management, and implement the security preservation against the internal multi-layer and bad mouthing attacks more effectively and efficiently than existing models.

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Performance comparison between IBE‐HWMP and ECDSA‐HWMP

Benitez¹,

Ben‐Othman

Claude³

2013

Security Comm Networks

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Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are one of the key technologies that will dominate wireless networking in the few years. The main characteristics of WMNs permit network connectivity anywhere anytime with simplicity and low cost. Their capability for self-organization significantly reduces the complexity of network deployment. The draft standard of IEEE P802.11 s ™ /D4.0 is not considered secure for the routing protocol. In this paper, we propose a secure Hybrid-Wireless-Mesh Protocol using an Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA-HWMP). We then compare the ECDSA-based HWMP against identity-based encryption (IBE)-based HWMP. This study has been carried out to show the great benefits of the IBE technique in securing HWMP. Through extensive Network Simulator-3 simulations, results have shown that the IBE-HWMP outperforms the ECDSA-HWMP in terms of overhead, throughput, loss ratio and delay. Simulation results show that the use of the IBE-based HWMP provides a greater level of security with light overhead.The IEEE 802.11 s Standard [1] considers security for authentication of nodes but does not consider security for the routing protocols. WMNs have characteristics such as rapid deployment and improved performance over conventional wireless local area networks. WMNs are self-organized and self-configured, with the nodes in the network automatically establishing an ad hoc network and maintaining mesh connectivity. An important aspect of the operation of WMNs is that communication between nodes can go beyond the range of coverage of any individual node, achieving routing multihops, where any pair of nodes that need to communicate will

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A novel mechanism to secure internal attacks in HWMP routing protocol

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Deployment and validation of out of band IP traceback approach (OBTA) in wireless mesh network

Deployment and validation of out of band IP traceback approach (OBTA) in wireless mesh network

CRM: A New Dynamic Cross-Layer Reputation Computation Model in Wireless Networks

Performance comparison between IBE‐HWMP and ECDSA‐HWMP

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