PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF RE-SHUFFLING PACKET ATTACK ON TRANSPORT LAYER PROTOCOL IN MANET

Sonia Choudhary, Vandna Verma

Abstract: Over the past decade, the wireless world has experienced significant developments. The emergence and proliferation of radio frequency networking products, wireless devices like handheld, wearable and portable computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)s, cellular phone have given rise to a kind of wireless revolution. A mobile ad hoc network is much more assailable to attacks than a wired network due to its limited physical security, high mobility and lack of centralized administration. In this paper, we present and analyze the effects of re-shuffling attack on TCP based mobile ad-hoc networks named as Packet Re-Shuffling. In the packet reshuffling attack the malicious node will reorder the packets in its FIFO buffer before forwarding them towards their destination. Due to the out of order delivery the retransmission time out of the packet is triggered and the source TCP and UDP has to retransmit the packet. In this way it also stops the TCP to perform the congestion avoidance technique. A malicious node will always participate in route setup operations. For example, if source routing is employed, malicious nodes always relay Route Request packets in order to have as many routes as possible flowing through themselves; if distance vector routing is employed, malicious nodes will also obey all control-plane protocol specifications. However, once a route is established, attacking nodes will thwart the end-to-end throughput of the flow via above mentioned attacks. The effect of the proposed attack is analyzed with the simulation results generated using the trial version of the simulator known as Exata Cyber 2.0. The simulation results are given in terms of metrics such as data flow throughput, Packet Retransmission, average end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio. In this paper, we are giving The study on UDP and TCP.

Keywords: MANETs; Multimedia Streaming; Routing protocols; QoS; Topology; Node Mobility; Network Scalability;

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0210075