Fast and Efficient Countermeasure for MAC Layer Misbehavior in MANETs

Soufiene Djahel, Zonghua Zhang, Farid Nait-Abdesselam, John Murphy

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Abstract

In this paper, we deal with backoff cheating technique in IEEE802.11 based MANETs and propose a novel scheme, dubbed HsF-MAC (Hash Function based MAC protocol), to cope with it. In contrast to the existing solutions, HsF-MAC allows MANET nodes to re-calculate the backoff value used by their 1-hop neighbors and immediately detect the misbehaving ones. Moreover, the colluding behavior of two cheating nodes is also considered along with effective countermeasures. A reconciliation based reaction mechanism is finally designed. The simulation results, under different topologies and network conditions, have validated the effectiveness of HsF-MAC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6261330
Pages (from-to)540-543
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume1
Issue number5
Early online date6 Aug 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2012
Externally publishedYes

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