Stealthy attacks in wireless ad hoc networks: Detection and countermeasure

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1096-1112

  Khalil, Issa ^a   Bagchi, Saurabh ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Local monitoring; misrouting; multihop wireless networks; packet dropping; transmission power control

Indexed keywords

LOCAL MONITORING; MISROUTING; MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORKS; PACKET DROPPING; TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL;

MONITORING; POWER CONTROL; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 79959526891     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.249     Document Type: Article

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