A flow based detection mechanism against flooding attacks in mobile ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is particularly vulnerable to flooding attacks. To evade being identified, attackers usually recruit multiple accomplices to dilute attack traffic density of each attack source, and use the address spoofing technique to challenge attack tracing. In this paper, we present a detailed investigation of the flooding attack in MANET. Further, we design two flow based detection features, and apply the cumulative sum algorithm on them to effectively and accurately detect such attack.