Analysis of area-congestion-based DDoS attacks in ad hoc networks

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 613-625

  Gu, Qijun ^a   Liu, Peng ^b   Chu, Chao Hsien ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc network; Congestion; Denial of service; Distributed denial of service; Security

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); PACKET LOSS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CROSS CONGESTION; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICES; REMOTE ATTACKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 33947309586     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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