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Scrutiny of unruly and abuse in wireless networks to mitigate physical layer threats using discriminate based misbehavior prevention

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The open nature of communication medium in wireless networks becomes easy for the attackers to indulge in jamming attack. Jamming blocks the communication channel with the intent of preventing the flow of useful information. Jammers effectively and stealthy corrupts the packet by injecting high level of noise thereby keeping the channel busy so that the legitimate traffic gets completely blocked, resulting in packet loss at the receiver side. Securing the information from the jammers has become very important. Therefore an effective approach is needed to prevent this attack and this paper proposes Discriminate based Misbehavior Prevention DMP scheme to identify and to detach the jammer that corrupts the packet in wireless network. The proposed scheme consists of three modules. In module one, the log files are analyzed and using the trusting mechanism the suspected traces are identified. In module two, three reshuffling algorithms has been developed for reshuffling and identifying doubtful traces. In module three, the jammer nodes are identified and detached from the network. By simulation studies, it is observed that the proposed scheme attains higher throughput and packet delivery ratio while attaining lower delay.

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This work was supported in part by Anna University recognized Research Center Lab at Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, India.

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    S. Raja Ratna & R. Ravi

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Ratna, S.R., Ravi, R. Scrutiny of unruly and abuse in wireless networks to mitigate physical layer threats using discriminate based misbehavior prevention. Cluster Comput 19, 87–97 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-015-0529-6

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