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Access Type
Campus Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Degree Type
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (M.S.E.C.E.)
Year Degree Awarded
2009
Month Degree Awarded
February
Keywords
networks, MANET, path recording, topology reconstruction
Abstract
The exchange of topology information is a potential attack target in mobile ad-hoc networks. To provide an intrinsic security mechanism, it is possible to validate topology advertisements in the control plane against records of the path taken by transmission in the data plane. In this work, different path recording mechanisms are discussed. Their performance - in terms of packet overhead and reconstruction complexity - is analyzed and evaluated.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/677480
First Advisor
Tilman Wolf