Improvement of AODV routing protocol based on wireless mesh networks

Guo-ping Xu, Jian-hui Liu
2010 2010 International Conference on Computer, Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering  
Security of wireless ad hoc network over insecure communication channel is a challenging task. In this paper, some of the threats to wireless ad hoc networks and specifically, some attacks against the AODV routing protocol are discussed. AODV tool is aimed at real-time detection of these attacks. The tool monitors network packets to detect local and distributed attacks within its radio range. In ad hoc networks, there is no established infrastructure or centralized administrator. Wireless ad
more » ... networks are vulnerable to various attacks. This paper surveys the various security issues and attacks possible in a wireless ad hoc network and motivates the need for an intrusion detection system. AODVSTAT is an intrusion detection tool that performs real-time detection of attacks in mobile ad hoc networks running the AODV routing protocol. Experimental results validate the ability of AODVSTAT to successfully detect both one-hop and distributed attacks against the AODV routing protocol, with a low number of false positives. Also, the tool imposes a small over-head on the network nodes, which is an important factor for resource-constrained equipment.
doi:10.1109/cmce.2010.5610515 fatcat:7g7zpptmlffyvatncf32cfxvdy