Security for Multihop Wireless Networks

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Chapter 1

Taxonomy and Holistic

Detection of Security

Attacks in MANETs

P. García-Teodoro, L. Sánchez-Casado, and

G.Maciá-Fernández

1.1 Introduction

Since the appearance of ad hoc networks in the 1980s, interest in this field has

increased among the research community. us, the number of specialized publica-

tions on this topic has exponentially grown, as shown in Figure 1.1. e principal

Contents

1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................3

1.2 Security Attacks in MANETs ......................................................................5

1.3 Attack Taxonomy ......................................................................................... ...