Mitigating selective forwarding attacks with a channel-aware approach in WMNS

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1661-1675

  Shila, Devu Manikantan ^a   Cheng, Yu ^a   Anjali, Tricha ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel aware detection; Gray hole attack; Optimal detection threshold; Selective forwarding attack; Wireless mesh network

Indexed keywords

ATTACK DETECTION; CHANNEL AWARE; CHANNEL LOSS; CHANNEL QUALITY; DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS; FALSE ALARMS; GRAY HOLE ATTACK; LOSS RATES; MEDIUM ACCESS; MESH ROUTERS; MISSED DETECTIONS; OPTIMAL DETECTION; PACKET DROPPING; TRAFFIC MONITORING; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; MESH NETWORKING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SECURITY OF DATA; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 77952255404     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.05.090700     Document Type: Article

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