@inproceedings{878809736d5842fea9396125ef7d12b4,
title = "Mitigation of flooding disruption attacks in hierarchical OLSR networks",
abstract = "The Hierarchical Optimized Link State Routing (HOLSR) protocol was designed to improve scalability of heterogeneous Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs). HOLSR is derived from the OLSR protocol and implements Multipoint Relay (MPR) nodes as a flooding mechanism for distributing control information. Unlike OLSR, nodes are organized in clusters and implement Hierarchical Topology Control (HTC) messages for inter-cluster communications. Nevertheless, HOLSR was designed without security measures. Therefore, a misbehaving node can affect the topology map acquisition process by interrupting the flooding of control information or disturbing the MPR selection process. We present a taxonomy of flooding disruption attacks, that affect the topology map acquisition process in HOLSR networks, and preventive mechanisms to mitigate the effect of this kind of attacks.",
keywords = "HOLSR, MPR, flooding mechanisms, security",
author = "Gimer Cervera and Michel Barbeau and Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro and Evangelos Kranakis",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1109/CNSR.2011.32",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769543932",
series = "Proceedings - 2011 9th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, CNSR 2011",
pages = "167--174",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2011 9th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, CNSR 2011",
note = "2011 9th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, CNSR 2011 ; Conference date: 02-05-2011 Through 05-05-2011",
}