With the rapid proliferation of wireless networks and mobile computing applications,
Quality of Service (QoS) for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) has received increased
attention. Security is a critical aspect of QoS provisioning in the MANET environment.
Without protection from a security mechanism, attacks on QoS signaling system could
result in QoS routing malfunction, interference of resource reservation, or even failure of
QoS provision.
Due to the characteristics of the MANETs, such as rapid topology change and limited
communication and computation capacity, the conventional security measures cannot be
applied and new security techniques are necessary. However, little research has been
done on this topic. In this dissertation, the security issues will be addressed for MANET
QoS systems.
The major contributions of this research are: (a) design of an authentication mechanism
for ad hoc networks; (b) design of a security mechanism to prevent and detect attacks on
the QoS signaling system; (c) design of an intrusion detection mechanism for bandwidth
reservation to detect QoS attacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. These three
mechanisms are evaluated through simulation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4295 |
| Date | 30 October 2006 |
| Creators | Lu, Bin |
| Contributors | Pooch, Udo W. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 650033 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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