The mason test: A defense against sybil attacks in wireless networks without trusted authorities

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2376-2391

  Liu, Yue ^a   Bild, David R ^a   Dick, Robert P ^a   Mao, Z Morley ^a   Wallach, Dan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Security; Sybil attack; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER CRIME; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CHALLENGE RESPONSE; MALICIOUS PARTICIPANT; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; SECURITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SYBIL ATTACK; TRUSTED AUTHORITIES; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 84952313614     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2015.2398425     Document Type: Article

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