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A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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Security is an essential service for wired and wireless network communications. The success of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) will depend on people ’s confidence in its security. However, the characteristics of MANET pose both challenges and opportunities in achieving security goals, such as confidentiality, authentication, integrity, availability, access control, and non-repudiation. We provide a survey of attacks and countermeasures in MANET in this chapter. The countermeasures are features or functions that reduce or eliminate security vulnerabilities and attacks. First, we give an overview of attacks according to the protocol layers, and to security attributes and mechanisms. Then we present preventive approaches following the order of the layered protocol layers. We also put forward an overview of MANET intrusion detection systems (IDS), which are reactive approaches to thwart attacks and used as a second line of defense.

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    Bing Wu, Jianmin Chen, Jie Wu & Mihaela Cardei

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    Yang Xiao

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    Xuemin Sherman Shen

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    Ding-Zhu Du

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Wu, B., Chen, J., Wu, J., Cardei, M. (2007). A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Xiao, Y., Shen, X.S., Du, DZ. (eds) Wireless Network Security. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33112-6_5

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