selfish attacks

Mitigating Traffic Remapping Attacks in Autonomous Multihop Wireless Networks

Multihop wireless networks with autonomous nodes are susceptible to selfish traffic remapping attacks (TRAs). Nodes launching TRAs leverage the underlying channel access function to receive an unduly high Quality of Service (QoS) for packet flows …

A Reputation Scheme to Discourage Selfish QoS Manipulation in Two-Hop Wireless Relay Networks

In wireless networks, stations can improve their received quality of service (QoS) by handling packets of source flows with higher priority. Additionally, in cooperative relay networks, the relays can handle transit flows with lower priority. We use …

Selfish Attacks in Two-Hop IEEE 802.11 Relay Networks: Impact and Countermeasures

In IEEE 802.11 networks, selfish stations can pursue a better quality of service through selfish MAC-layer attacks. Such attacks are easy to perform, secure routing protocols do not prevent them, and their detection may be complex. Two-hop relay …

Traffic Remapping Attacks in Ad Hoc Networks

Ad hoc networks rely on the mutual cooperation of stations. As such, they are susceptible to selfish attacks that abuse network mechanisms. Class-based QoS provisioning mechanisms, such as the EDCA function of IEEE 802.11, are particularly prone to …

Modeling a Traffic Remapping Attack Game in a Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Network

In multi-hop ad hoc networks, selfish nodes may unduly acquire high quality of service (QoS) by assigning higher priority to source packets and lower priority to transit packets. Such traffic remapping attacks (TRAs) are cheap to launch, impossible …

Enabling autonomicity in wireless mesh networks with the ETSI AFI GANA reference model

The distributed nature of wireless mesh networks (WMNs) allows them to benefit from multiple autonomic functionalities. However, the existing landscape of self-x solutions (eg, self-configuration) is fragmented and the lack of a standardized …

Credibility of Threats to Jam Anonymous Traffic Remapping Attacks in Ad Hoc WLANs

In ad hoc networks, selfish stations can pursue a better quality of service (QoS) by performing traffic remapping attacks (TRAs), i.e., by falsely assigning their traffic to a higher priority class, which can hurt honest stations' QoS. To discourage …

Selfish attacks in IEEE 802.11aa networks with intra-AC prioritization

The 802.11 standard is prone to selfish attacks performed by insiders, i.e., correctly authenticated stations. The recently released 802.11aa amendment is likewise prone to such attacks because the mechanisms which it provides can be selfishly …

Assessing the cooperativeness of users in Wi-Fi networks

Wi-Fi networks are based on the cooperation of users in sharing a common resource — the radio channel. This is a security risk because users may behave selfishly to increase their own throughput but at the same time decrease the overall network …

Discouraging Traffic Remapping Attacks in Local Ad Hoc Networks

Quality of Service (QoS) is usually provided in ad hoc networks using a class-based approach which, without dedicated security measures in place, paves the way to various abuses by selfish stations. Such actions include traffic remapping attacks …