FA-AODV: Flooding Attacks Detection Based Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol for VANET

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET) is anticipated to be the most effective way of increasing performance and safety in transportation soon. VANETs are the sub-branch of Ad-Hoc Networks which provide safety and comfort features together with related services for the vehicle operators. RREQ flood attack mostly encountered in the literature for security of VANET. Due to the nature of the reactive protocols, the AODV routing protocol is quite open to attack types such as flood attack. Flood attacks occur in the network layer. The impact of flood attacks is not about victim nodes, it can be also affecting the whole network. A malicious attack that could be carried out in VANET could cause accidents that would cause a serious disaster. A malicious node could penetrate the IP addresses on a Flood Attack based User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to breakdown the data communication between two vehicles. The main purpose of this paper is to detect and prevent the flood attack, during the operation of the routing protocol and to decrease the end-to-end delay on the network.