Enhanced olsr for defense against dos attack in ad hoc networks
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This document proposes a mechanism called Enhanced OLSR (EOLSR) to secure the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol against denial-of-service (DOS) node isolation attacks in mobile ad hoc networks. EOLSR verifies hello packets from neighbor nodes to detect malicious nodes launching node isolation attacks. Experiments show EOLSR achieves a 45% increase in packet delivery ratio and 44% reduction in packet loss compared to standard OLSR under attack, with low computational complexity.
Enhanced olsr for defense against dos attack in ad hoc networks
- 1. Enhanced OLSR for Defense against DOS Attack in Ad Hoc Networks ABSTRACT: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) refers to a network designed for special applications for which it is difficult to use a backbone network. In MANETs, applications are mostly involved with sensitive and secret information. Since MANET assumes a trusted environment for routing, security is a major issue. In this paper we analyze the vulnerabilities of a pro-active routing protocol called optimized link state routing (OLSR) against a specific type of denial-of-service (DOS) attack called node isolation attack. Analyzing the attack, we propose a mechanism called enhanced OLSR (EOLSR) protocol which is a trust based technique to secure the OLSR nodes against the attack. Our technique is capable of finding whether a node is advertising correct topology information or not by verifying its Hello packets, thus detecting node isolation attacks. The experiment results show that our protocol is able to achieve routing security with 45% increase in packet delivery ratio and 44% reduction in packet loss rate when compared to standard OLSR under node isolation attack. Our technique is light weight because it doesn’t involve high computational complexity for securing the networks. EXISTING SYSTEM:
- 2. When a network topology changes, respective updates must be propagated throughout the network to notify the change. In reactive routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks, which are also called “on-demand” routing protocols, routing paths are searched for, when needed. Even though many research works had been carried out for routing attacks in MANET, most of it concentrated mainly on reactive routing protocols. Optimized link state routing (OLSR) routing protocol which is a proactive routing protocol offers promising performance in terms of bandwidth and traffic overhead but it does not incorporate any security measures. DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM: OLSR is vulnerable to various kinds of attacks such as flooding attack, link withholding attack, replay attack, denial-of-service (DOS) attack and colluding misrelay attack. PROPOSED SYSTEM: In this paper, we analyze a specific DOS attack called node isolation attack and propose a solution for it. Node isolation attack can be easily launched on OLSR after observing the network activity for a period of time. We propose a solution called enhanced OLSR (EOLSR) that is based on verifying the hello packets coming from the node before selecting it as a multipoint relay (MPR) node for forwarding packets.
- 3. ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM: The proposed solution called EOLSR, which is based on OLSR, uses a simple verification scheme of hello packets coming from neighbor nodes to detect the malicious nodes in the network. The experiment results show that the percentage of packets received through our proposed work is better than OLSR in presence of multiple attacker nodes. Compared to other related works, the proposed protocol has more merits; the most important merit is that it achieves degradation in packet loss rate without any computational complexity or promiscuous listening. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:- HARDWARE CONFIGURATION:- Processor - Pentium –IV Speed - 1.1 Ghz RAM - 256 MB(min) Hard Disk - 20 GB Key Board - Standard Windows Keyboard Mouse - Two or Three Button Mouse Monitor - SVGA
- 4. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:- Operating System : LINUX Tool : Network Simulator-2 Front End : OTCL (Object Oriented Tool Command Language) REFERENCE: Mohanapriya Marimuthu and Ilango Krishnamurthi “Enhanced OLSR for Defense against DOS Attack in Ad Hoc Networks”- JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS, VOL. 15, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2013.