Baghdad Science Journal (Dec 2021)

Impact of Denial-of-Service Attack on Directional Compact Geographic Forwarding Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Nasrina M Samir,
  • Maisarah Musni,
  • Zurina Mohd Hanapi,
  • Mohamed Ridzal Radzuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21123/bsj.2021.18.4(Suppl.).1371
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 4(Suppl.)

Abstract

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Directional Compact Geographic Forwarding (DCGF) routing protocol promises a minimal overhead generation by utilizing a smart antenna and Quality of Service (QoS) aware aggregation. However, DCGF was tested only in the attack-free scenario without involving the security elements. Therefore, an investigation was conducted to examine the routing protocol algorithm whether it is secure against attack-based networks in the presence of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. This analysis on DoS attack was carried out using a single optimal attacker, A1, to investigate the impact of DoS attack on DCGF in a communication link. The study showed that DCGF does not perform efficiently in terms of packet delivery ratio and energy consumption even on a single attacker.

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