Firewall Based Signature Enhancement for Flooding Attack in MANET

Abstract: A mobile adhoc network (MANET) is a continuously self-configuring, infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected without wires. Each device in a MANET is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently. This document gives formatting instructions for authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of an MANETs are vulnerable to various types of attack because of its features like continuous changing topology, resource constraints and unavailability of any centralized infrastructure. Many denial of service type of attacks are possible in the MANET and one of these type attacks is flooding attack in which malicious node sends the useless packets to consume the valuable network resources. In this paper we present a novel technique to prevent flooding attack in MANET.

Keywords: DoS Attack, MANET, Flooding.