Hybridizing network attack detection and prevention via integrated DADCQ protocol

Abstract

Distribution adaptive distance with channel quality or DADCQ is a protocol used for checking the fitness of a node for communication by utilizing node specific parameters in a distributed environment. The major purpose of the protocol is to check if the node should be given preference in re-broadcasting when a lot of nodes are trying the communicate in the network, DADCQ does this by accessing the node distribution, channel quality and distance from the target nodes. In this paper, we modify the DADCQ protocol in order to detect and remove abnormalities like distributed denial of service (DDOS) and eves-dropping attacks in a distributed network. The attacked network is evaluated for pre and post application of the modified protocol and the Quality of Service (QoS) parameters are evaluated. It is observed that the proposed protocol improves the QoS and is successful in removal of the aforementioned attacks from the network.