CSMCSM: Client-Server Model for Comprehensive Security in MANETs

• Published in: International journal of information security and privacy Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 44 - 64
• Main Authors: Salama, Hatem Mahmoud, El Mageed, Mohamed Zaki Abd, Salama, Gouda Ismail Mohamed, Badran, Khaled Mahmoud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Client servers; Decision trees; Fault tolerance; File servers; Intrusion detection systems; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network servers; Performance evaluation; Privacy; Safety and security measures; Software
• ISSN: 1930-1650; 1930-1669
• DOI: 10.4018/IJISP.2021010103

Many MANET research works are based on the popular informal definition that MANET is a wireless ad-hoc network that has neither infrastructure nor backbone and every network node is autonomous and moves depending on its mobility. Unfortunately, this definition pays no attention to the network servers that are essential in core-based, mission-critical, and military MANETs. In core-based MANETs, external intrusion detection systems (IDS) cannot detect internal Byzantine attacks; in addition, internal Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) systems are unqualified to detect typical external wireless attack. Therefore, there is a real need to combine both internal and external mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) ID systems. Here, CSMCSM is presented as a two-level client server model for comprehensive security in MANETs that integrates internal and external attack detectors in one device. The internal component is based on a BFT consensus algorithm while the external component employs decision tree to classify the MANET attacks.