Simulation and analysis of RTS/CTS DoS attack variants in 802.11 networks

Nagarjun, Pmd; Kumar, Vikas; Kumar, C. A.; Ravi, Aavula

doi:10.1109/icprime.2013.6496483

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“…The authors have analysed both sender and receiver misbe-haviours and concludes that misbehaving nodes can obtain a larger throughput which significantly affect the network performance, even capable of completely freeze the network at higher rate attacks. In [4] they have analysed and simulated the RTS/CTS DoS attack variants in 802.11 networks, which is one type of low rate DoS attack that capable to exploit the medium reservation mechanism of IEEE 802.11 through duration field. Also, in [5] [6] [7] has conducted an evaluation for greedy receiver misbehaviour in IEEE 802.11 Hotspots, they have identified a range of greedy receiver misbehaviours, and quantify their damage using both simulation and testbed experiments.…”

Section: B Ieee 80211 Mac Protocol Misbehavioursmentioning

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Resilient misbehaviour detection MAC protocol (MD-MAC) for distributed wireless networks

Alocious

Xiao

Christianson

2016

2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

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Wireless network security requirements are becoming more important and critical. The modern network security architectures require more attention to provide security in each network layer. This will require understanding of protocol vulnerabilities in existing protocol architectures. However, providing security requirements are not just limited to confidentiality and integrity, also availability and fairness are important security elements. IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol is one of the most common standard in modern day networks and has been designed without a consideration for providing security protection at MAC layer. IEEE 802.11 assumes all the nodes in the network are cooperative. However, nodes may purposefully misbehave in order to obtain extra bandwidth, conserve resources and disrupt network performance. This research proposes a Misbehaviour Detection MAC protocol (MD-MAC) to address the problematic scenarios of MAC layer misbehaviours, which takes a novel approach to detect misbehaviours in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs). The MD-MAC modifies the CSMA/CA protocol message exchange and uses verifiable backoff value generation mechanism with an incorporated trust model which is suitable for distributed networks. The MD-MAC protocol has been implemented and evaluated in ns2, simulation results suggest that the protocol is able to detect misbehaving wireless nodes in a distributed network environment.

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Section: B Ieee 80211 Mac Protocol Misbehavioursmentioning

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Resilient misbehaviour detection MAC protocol (MD-MAC) for distributed wireless networks

Alocious

Xiao

Christianson

2016

2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

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“…In [4] the authors have analysed and simulated the RTS/CTS DoS attack variants in 802.11 networks which is one type of low rate DoS attack that capable to exploit the medium reservation mechanism of IEEE 802.11 networks through duration field. Their research proposing a RTS/CTS attack which changes the Network Allocation Vector(NAV) value in RTS/CTS control packet.…”

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“…Their research proposing a RTS/CTS attack which changes the Network Allocation Vector(NAV) value in RTS/CTS control packet. The attacker could set the maximum value for the NAV duration field, and if the attacker uses a data rate of 30 frames/s then the attacker can prevent genuine nodes from accessing the channel [4]. The research done by P. Kyasanaur et al [6] have proposed a modification to the existing standard IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol in order to address the problem of sender backoff manipulation in WLANs.…”

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Analysis of DoS attacks at MAC Layer in mobile adhoc networks

Alocious

Xiao

Christianson

2015

2015 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)

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Wireless network security has received tremendous attention due to the vulnerabilities exposed in the open communication medium. The most common wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is IEEE 802.11, which assumes all the nodes in the network are cooperative. However, nodes may purposefully misbehave in order to disrupt network performance, obtain extra bandwidth and conserve resources. These MAC layer misbehaviours can lead to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks which can disrupt the network operation. There is a lack of comprehensive analysis of MAC layer misbehaviour driven DoS attacks for the IEEE 802.11 protocol in MANETs. This research studied possible MAC layer DoS attack strategies that are driven by the MAC layer malicious/selfish nodes on IEEE 802.11 protocol. Such DoS attacks could caused by malicious and selfish nodes by violating their backoff timers associated with the MAC protocol. Therefore, these attacks are experimentally analysed and evaluated the impact on the network performance and stability in MANETs. The simulation results show that introducing DoS attacks at MAC layer could significantly affect the network throughput and data packet collision rate. This paper concludes that DoS attacks with selfish/malicious intend can obtain at least 50% larger throughput by denying wellbehaved nodes to obtain deserved throughput, also DoS attacks with the intend of complete destruction which allow only less than 5% throughput for well-behaved nodes which eventually led to shut-down of the network.Index Terms-Wireless Network Security, IEEE 802.11, Medium Access Control, Denial of Service, MAC Layer Misbehaviours 978-1-4799-5344-8/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE

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“…DoS attack is in which an attacker trying to make the target server stop providing services. It exists in many areas and has many attacking modes such as Anti_DoS [1] , 802.11 Network DoS [2] , Mobile ad-hoc DoS [3] and VANET DoS [4] . The attacker can make two effects to the server by launching DoS attack.…”

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Analysis of Blended-mode DoS Attack

Ou¹,

Zhang²

2015

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mechatronics, Materials, Chemistry and Computer Engineering 2015

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Most techniques of DoS attack are single-model, which have the disadvantages of low attack efficiency and weak adaptability. This paper presents a blended-mode DoS attack mode and we focus on the analysis of the efficiency of this mode. In this mode, we combine different DoS attack modes to attack the target at the same time for increasing theefficiency. In this paper, through some experiments we verify the high efficiency of this mode.

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Simulation and analysis of RTS/CTS DoS attack variants in 802.11 networks

Cited by 12 publications

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Resilient misbehaviour detection MAC protocol (MD-MAC) for distributed wireless networks

Resilient misbehaviour detection MAC protocol (MD-MAC) for distributed wireless networks

Analysis of DoS attacks at MAC Layer in mobile adhoc networks

Analysis of Blended-mode DoS Attack

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