DoS Attacks at Cooperative MAC
Zeeshan Haider, Kiramat Ullah, Tauseef Jamal

TL;DR
This paper analyzes DoS attacks at the MAC layer in cooperative wireless networks, highlighting vulnerabilities, surveying existing defenses, and discussing mitigation strategies to enhance network resilience.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive analysis of DoS attacks specific to cooperative MAC protocols and surveys existing solutions, emphasizing the need for robust defenses.
Findings
Identified key DoS attack vectors at MAC in cooperative networks
Surveyed existing defense mechanisms against MAC layer DoS attacks
Discussed the impact and mitigation strategies for these attacks
Abstract
Cooperative networking brings performance improvement to most of the issues in wireless networks, such as fading or delay due to slow stations. However, due to cooperation when data is relayed via other nodes, there network is more prone to attacks. Since, channel access is very important for cooperation, most of the attacks happens at MAC. One of the most critical attack is denial of service, which is reason of cooperation failure. Therefore, the cooperative network as well as simple wireless LAN must be defensive against DOS attacks. In this article we analyzed all possible of DoS attacks that can happen at MAC layer of WLAN. The cooperative protocols must consider defense against these attacks. This article also provided survey of available solutions to these attacks. At the end it described its damages and cost as well as how to handle these attacks while devising cooperative MAC.
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Taxonomy
TopicsMobile Ad Hoc Networks · Cooperative Communication and Network Coding · IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
