Dealing with Collusion Attack in a Trust-Based MANET

Abassi, Ryma

doi:10.1080/01969722.2018.1541598

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“…iii) Trust-based Scheme: The trust-based approach is a frequently used approach for resisting collusion in MANET. The technique used in [39] emphasizes validating the neighboring mobile nodes' recommended trust. Another unique trust-based model has been presented in [40], where a clustering mechanism is applied along with extensive rule constructs in fuzzy logic.…”

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Game Theory Analysis and Modeling of Sophisticated Multi-Collusion Attack in MANETs

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Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) has been a core topic of research since the last decade. Currently, this form of networking paradigm is increasingly being construed as an integral part of upcoming urban applications of Internet-of-Things (IoT), consisting of massive connectivity of diverse types of nodes. There is a significant barrier to the applicability of existing routing approaches in conventional MANETs when integrated with IoT. This routing mismatch can lead to security risks for the MANET-based application tied with the IoT platform. This paper examines a pragmatic scenario as a test case wherein the mobile nodes must exchange multimedia signals for supporting real-time streaming applications. There exist two essential security requirements viz. i) securing the data packet and ii) understanding the unpredictable behavior of the attacker. The current study considers sophistication on the part of attacker nodes. They are aware of each other's identity and thereby collude to conduct lethal attacks, which is rarely reflected in existing security modeling statistics. This research harnesses the potential modeling aspect of game theory to model the multiple-collusion attacker scenario. It contributes towards i) modeling strategies of regular/malicious nodes and ii) applying optimization principle using novel auxiliary information to formulate the optimal strategies. The model advances each regular node's capability to carry out precise computation about the opponent player's strategy prediction, i.e., malicious node. The simulation outcome of the proposed mathematical model in MATLAB ascertains that it outperforms the game theory's baseline approach.

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“…Some of them [16,17] were proposed to deal with a specific type of message while others [3,6,19] used decentralized trust systems, relying on interactions with neighbors, which is not practical in the highly dynamic environment of a VANET. Several works [4,10,15,23] tried to cope with a specific type of attack, which can be a limitation whereas several others were designed to handle a specific challenge such as authentication [24], privacy [20,25] or localization [18,22]. Therefore, unlike other solutions, we propose an adaptive trust-based security scheme for message exchange in VANETs based on VGA, our new clustering algorithm designed to handle the dynamicity such networks.…”

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“…Trust can be used to promote healthy collaboration by enabling collaborating vehicles to counter uncertainty and suspicion by establishing trustworthy relationships [2,3]. Because of the importance of the challenge, trust is associated with an abstract system that helps decision making, referred to as Trust Management (TM) [4]. Hence our main proposal is a trust-based security scheme for message exchanges in VANETs.…”

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TSME: a trust-based security scheme for message exchange in vehicular Ad hoc networks

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Douss

Sauveron

2020

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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A Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) is a self-organized network formed by connected vehicles, which allows the exchange of useful traffic information in a timely manner. In such a context, evaluating the reliability of transmissions is vital. Trust can be used to promote such healthy collaboration. In fact, trust enables collaborating vehicles to counter uncertainty and suspicion by establishing trustworthy relationships. The main contribution of this paper is the proposition of a trust-based security scheme for message exchange in a VANET called TSME. Because of VANET characteristics, including dynamicity and high speed, we first proposed a VANET Grouping Algorithm (VGA); a suitable clustering algorithm organizing the network into groups with elected Group-Heads. Second, built on the VGA, we defined our trust management scheme dealing with vehicles’ reputations. Finally, we proposed a formal specification of the scheme using an inference system, and conducted a formal validation to assess its completeness and soundness rather than conducting simulations where some potentially rare conflicting or malfunctioning situations might not be detected. Soundness was proven by showing that there were no conflicts in our scheme, and completeness was established by assessing that all potential situations could be handled. The results obtained showed that our scheme for evaluating the veracity of exchanged messages is formally sound and complete.

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“…Trust management mechanism can get confused by collusion of malicious nodes. Some nodes can collude in order to mutually increase their trustworthiness and at the same time decrease the trustworthiness of other (innocent) nodes [13].…”

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“…This allows collecting relevant information by the trust-based architecture independently of the specific features of the considered routing protocol. [13] pays attention to the problem of collusion attacks in trust-based MANET networks (mobile ad hoc networks). Trust management may be faked by cheaters: several nodes collude in order to rate each other with the maximum value and at the same time decrease other nodes' reputation by giving negative recommendations about the latter.…”

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IJSPTM

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The research problem considered in this paper is how to protect wireless sensor networks (WSN) against cyber-threats by applying trust management and how to strengthen network resilience to attacks targeting the trust management mechanism itself. A new method, called WSN Cooperative Trust Management Method (WCT2M), of distributed trust management in multi-layer wireless sensor networks is proposed and its performance is evaluated. The method is specified by giving its class model in UML and by explaining the related attributes and methods. Different attacks against the network and against WCT2M deployed in the network are considered. The experimental evaluation of WCT2M involves laboratory experiments and simulations using a dedicated simulator. The evaluation focuses on efficiency of detecting and isolating the malicious nodes that implement different attack scenarios in the network and on the method's sensitivity to the changes in effectiveness of the security mechanisms deployed in the network nodes.

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Dealing with Collusion Attack in a Trust-Based MANET

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Game Theory Analysis and Modeling of Sophisticated Multi-Collusion Attack in MANETs

Game Theory Analysis and Modeling of Sophisticated Multi-Collusion Attack in MANETs

TSME: a trust-based security scheme for message exchange in vehicular Ad hoc networks

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