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This paper deals with the aspect of security in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). DTNs are characterized with decentralized control. Network performance and trustworthiness of transmitted information in DTNs depend upon the level of co-operation among participating nodes. As a result, DTNs are vulnerable towards untoward activities arising out of node selfishness as well as malicious intentions. In this paper, we limit our focus to the Black Hole Denial-of-Service attack. We develop a table-based strategy to record network history and use this information to detect discrepancies in the behavior of nodes, followed by elimination of those detected as malicious. We explain our detection mechanism considering Spray & Focus routing protocol as the representative routing scheme. The detection mechanism has been described in detail with examples pertaining to various case scenarios. Furthermore, we study the effect of variation of various parameters on detection efficiency and message transmission through simulation results.
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Saha, S., Verma, R., Sengupta, S., Mishra, V., Nandi, S. (2012). SRSnF: A Strategy for Secured Routing in Spray and Focus Routing Protocol for DTN. In: Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D., Chaki, N. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31513-8_17
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