• DocumentCode
    1973378
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    3-7 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1079
  • Lastpage
    1084
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    1930-529X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0920-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1930-529X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503256
  • Filename
    6503256