Title :
DDoS attack on WAVE-enabled VANET through synchronization
Author :
Biswas, Santosh ; Misic, Jelena ; Misic, Vojislav B
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Abstract :
A VANET that uses IEEE 802.11p EDCA mechanism is susceptible to a synchronization-based DDoS attack due to periodicity of transmissions and small contention window sizes. To make things worse, neither the sender nor receivers of periodic broadcasts will be aware of the attack since broadcast communications in VANET do not have acknowledgements. In this paper, we analyze the prospect of a synchronization-based DDoS attacks on vehicular communications and propose mitigation techniques to avoid such an attack.
Keywords :
security of data; synchronisation; telecommunication standards; vehicular ad hoc networks; DDoS attack; IEEE 802.11p EDCA mechanism; WAVE-enabled VANET; broadcast communications; contention window; denial-of-service attack; synchronization; vehicular ad hoc networks; vehicular communications;
Conference_Titel :
Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0920-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-529X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503256
