Detecting bottlenecks on-the-fly in OLSR based MANETs

Nadav Schweitzer, Ariel Stulman, Tirza Hirst, Roy David Margalit, Meir Armon, Asaf Shabtai

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Abstract

Attackers are usually interested in the important assets of the attack's target. In networks, bottleneck nodes - those that sit on many potential routes between sender and receiver - are the highest value asset that can be compromised. The dynamic nature of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) causes ubiquitous routing algorithms to be even more susceptible to this class of attacks. Besides actually finding such bottleneck locations, an attacker can subvert the routing to create a virtual bottleneck. In this paper we propose a method of detecting bottleneck nodes in MANETs based on the prevalent OLSR protocol without imposing additional network traffic. Once such a bottleneck has been discovered, we propose mitigation methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)9781479959877
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014
Event2014 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014 - Eilat, Israel
Duration: 3 Dec 20145 Dec 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014

Conference

Conference2014 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityEilat
Period3/12/145/12/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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