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A cross-layer dropping attack in video streaming over ad hoc networks

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Prasant MohapatraAuthors Info & Claims

SecureComm '08: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security and privacy in communication netowrks

Article No.: 25, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/1460877.1460909

Published: 22 September 2008 Publication History

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Significant progress has been made to achieve video streaming over wireless ad hoc networks. However, there is not much work on providing security. Is existing security solution good enough for securing video streaming over ad hoc networks? In this paper, we discover a cross-layer dropping attack against video streaming. We first identify a general IP layer dropping attack and then reveal its destructive impact by leveraging the application layer information (e.g., video streaming). Through simulations, we quantify the impact of this attack as a function of several performance parameters such as delivery ratio, hop number and the number of attackers. The surprising result with this attack is that with a 94% delivery ratio, the receiver still cannot watch the video! We also propose several possible solutions to address the dropping attacks. Due to the unique characteristics of this attack, as long as malicious nodes exist, the network will suffer from this dropping attack.

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SecureComm '08: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security and privacy in communication netowrks

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ISBN:9781605582412

DOI:10.1145/1460877

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Zhang LRestuccia FMelodia TPudlewski S(2019)Taming Cross-Layer Attacks in Wireless Networks: A Bayesian Learning ApproachIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2018.286415518:7(1688-1702)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2864155
Asati VPilli EVipparthi SGarg SSinghal SPancholi S(2018)RMDD: Cross Layer Attack in Internet of Things2018 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI)10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554471(172-178)Online publication date: Sep-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554471
Wang JFapojuwo AZhang CTan H(2017)UML Modeling of Cross-Layer Attack in Wireless Sensor NetworksInteroperability, Safety and Security in IoT10.1007/978-3-319-52727-7_12(104-115)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52727-7_12
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