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AFA: Anti-Flooding Attack Scheme Against Flooding Attack in MANET

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Security in a mobile ad-hoc network is an essential requirement that helps in preventing attacks from the malicious node. A flooding attack is a type of denial of service attack that consumes the network bandwidth due to flooding of the fake packets by the flooder node. The different forms of flooding attacks are route request flooding attacks and data flooding attacks. In a route request flooding attack, the flooder node exhausts the network resources with a high number of fake request packets in the network whereas in a data flooding attack; the flooder node sends the fake data packets to the destination. In this paper, we have proposed an Anti-Flooding Attack (AFA) scheme that can detect both types of flooding attacks. NS-2.35 simulator is used to validate the efficiency of the proposed scheme under the effect of different mobility speeds and the number of nodes scenario. The simulation results show that the proposed AFA scheme performs better as compared with an existing scheme on the various performance metrics.

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Mankotia, V., Sunkaria, R.K. & Gurung, S. AFA: Anti-Flooding Attack Scheme Against Flooding Attack in MANET. Wireless Pers Commun 130, 1161–1190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10325-3

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