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A New Set of Passive Routing Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Overview In hostile environments, adversaries can launch passive attacks against interceptable routing information embedded in routing messages and data packets. Allowing adversaries to trace network routes and infer the motion pattern of nodes at the end of those routes may pose a serious threat to covert operations. This paper proposes a feasible adversary model of such attacks, then present several instantiations and studies the principles of designing corresponding countermeasures. The paper demonstrates that existing ad hoc routing protocols are vulnerable to passive attacks: in the feasible adversary model, the location and motion patterns of mobile nodes can be traced, while proactive and reactive/on-demand ad hoc routes across multiple mobile nodes can be visualized by the adversary.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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