International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology- Volume3Issue3- 2012

Detection and prevention of congestion attacks and packet loss using piggyback methods in wireless network
M.Gowsalya1,
Research Scholar Department of Computer Science & Engg Alagappa university Karaikudi-630 003
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V.Palanisamy2 MCA. M.Tech., P.hd

Associate Professor2 Department of Computer Science & Engg Alagappa University karaikudi-630 003

Abstract - Network security involves the authorization of access to data in a network, which is controlled by the network administrator. In this paper, we investigate the problem of packet loss over the wireless communication and the congestions that are taken place. To prevent the packet loss, we propose the idea of Piggybacking by which the data can be transfer between the server and the client on the secure manner. Moreover the complete data will be encrypted before the transmission takes place. The RSA algorithm is used for the encryption and the decryption purpose. The encrypted data will then piggybacked by which the data is hided and then moved to the destinations. Through this the congestion on the network can be controlled. Keywords: Network Security, Wireless Communications, piggybacking, Encryption. I. INTRODUCTION Wireless networks rely on the uninterrupted availability of the wireless medium to interconnect participating nodes. However, the open nature of this medium leaves it vulnerable to multiple security threats. Anyone with a transceiver can eavesdrops on wireless transmissions, inject spurious messages, or jam legitimate ones. While eavesdropping and message injection can be prevented using cryptographic methods, jamming attacks are much harder to counter. They have been shown to actualize severe Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against wireless networks. In the simplest form of jamming, the adversary interferes with the reception of messages by transmitting a continuous jamming signal, or several short jamming pulses Network Security is becoming more and more crucial as the volume of data being exchanged on the internet access. The security involves four important aspects: Confidentiality, message authentication, integrity and non repudiation. Popular application of multimedia technology, and increasingly transmission ability of network gradually leads us to acquire, information directly and clearly through images. Hence, image security has become a critical and imperative issue.

Cryptography is the process of transforming information (plain text/Image) into unintelligible form (Cipher text/ Cipher Image).The technology of encryption is called cryptology. For encryption the RSA algorithm is used to encrypt and decrypt the text, because it is considered as a better solution for data encryption. In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public key cryptography. The RSA algorithm involves the use of two Keys a public key, which may be known by anybody, and can be used to encrypt Messages a private key, known only by the recipient, and used to decrypt messages. Cryptography defines the art of transforming data into sequence of bits that appears as random and meaningless to a site observer or attacker. It relates to the study of mathematical techniques related to the aspects of information security such as confidentiality, data integrity, entity authentication, data origin authentication. It protects information by transferring it into unreadable form. The process of sending data along with the acknowledgment is called piggybacking. Piggybacking is distinct from war driving, which involves only the logging or mapping of the existence of access points. Piggybacking on Internet access is the practice of establishing a wireless Internet connection by using another subscriber's wireless Internet access service without the subscriber's explicit permission or knowledge. It is a legally and ethically controversial practice, with laws that vary by jurisdiction around the world. While completely outlawed or regulated in some places, it is permitted in others. The paper is organized as follows. In section 2 the related works are discussed. In section 3 the research contribution over the encryption and piggybacking are discussed. In section 4 the results of the evaluated parameters are discussed. With section 5 the paper is concluded.

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II. RELATED WORK Alejandroproano and Loukas Lazos in their paper proposed the methods for the packet hiding in jamming attacks.T.X.Brown, J.E.James and A.Sethi in their paper proposed the encryption technique taken place in the wireless networks. D.Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture,Prentice Hall,2006. O.Goldreich in his proposed paper discusses about the basic applications of the cryptography and their encryption decryption formulas. G.Lin and G.Noubir in their paper proposed discusses about the denial of service attacks and their threats in the Local Area Connected networked. This is referred in the denial of service attack while the piggybacking takes place. In the Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols and the architecture by D.Comer the various types of the protocols used, the basic architecture for the congestion control and piggyback the selected packets are taken place. In the paper proposed by M.Cagalj, S.Capkun and J.P.Habuax, the wormhole based congestion technique in the sensor networks the types of the congestion, the flooding basics the congestion prevention and avoidance are referred in this work. In the short paper work proposed by M.Wilhelm and I.Martinovic, J.Schmitt and V.Lenders the Reactive jamming in the wireless networks: How realistic is the threat? the jamming attacks, principles and the selective packet hiding techniques are referred. I.Venkata Saj Manoj in his paper proposed the various method and the techniques used in the Steganography and the cryptography. III. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION Piggybacking is well known and extensively used for real world applications. For large packets such as I, the source produces a further compressed packet by discarding the less- important bits and attaches this small and redundant packet to data packet i+1. In this proposed work we propose two new methodologies to send data between the server and numerous clients in the secure manner. First the data encryption technique is handled by the RSA Algorithm. Secondly the encrypted text is transfer over the network .When the decryption is done on the clients there the piggy backing operation takes place. For packet hiding technique the A Strong Hiding Commitment Scheme (SHCS) is implemented. 3.1 Congestion Control and Packet Classification One of the major problems in the wireless communication is the congestion control and avoidance problem. We, in this proposed paper addressed the problem of discerning congestion attacks in the wireless networks. We considered an internal adversary model which is responsible for the congestion. In the adversary model, in that which the congestion is taken place as a part and hence easily identified and prevented. The Adversary model proposed here is responsible for the packet classification in the in real time applications. Once the packet is classified, the adversary is responsible to choose the technique for jamming avoidance.

Fig -1 The IP Address and the Host Name

Fig -2 The Message to be transmitted. 3.2 A Strong Hiding Commitment Scheme (Shcs) In this paper, we propose a strong hiding commitment scheme that is based on the symmetric cryptography method. Main impetus is to satisfy the strong hiding property while keeping the computation and the communication overhead to a minimum. The proposed SHCS requires the joint consideration of the MAC and PHY layers. To reduce the overhead the de-commitment value or the decryption key value is done in the same packet in which the encryption is taken place. A new sub layer is found between the existing two layers, which is responsible for the packet formatting and data hiding. It will form as a frame structure. The purpose of this is to randomize the input to the encryption algorithm.

3.3 Encryption of Data

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The data is encrypted by using the RSA Algorithm. It is the public key algorithm that uses the huge prime numbers in their factoring and their multiples as the code or key to encode the data given. Since the key size is large the intruders cannot be easily able to hack the data. Through this RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) algorithm the data will be more secure. IV. CONCLUSION In this paper, we propose a new technique for the security of the data by piggyback the data with the sequence ID and with the host name. Along with the piggybacking we also maintain the strong hiding scheme that provides the packet from loss and stored in the buffer. The congestion control is maintained in this paper by following the sequential number ID of the packets. In the wireless network, the confidentiality of the data is more important aspect and is maintained in this paper by piggybacking the packets without loss.

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Fig -3 The User Defined Text is encrypted.
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Fig -4 The Data is transmitted to the requested clients. 3.4 Piggybacking Technique In this paper, we proposed a novel method using piggybacking technique of packet loss during large volume of packets sent to more number of clients. At the decryption end, the data in huge volume will be loss due to congestions. But by piggybacking the packets along with the header and sequence ID and the host name the data will be send directly to the selected host. Hence, the data will be buffered and after that process the data will be sending to all the clients that are alive on the network. Thus the piggybacking techniques the data will be directly send to the client network, after the acknowledgement is received. The TCP protocol is responsible for the processing.

BIOGRAPHY M.GOWSALYA Miss.M.GOWSALYA is a Research scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. She has received her M.Sc in Computer Science from Alagappa University,Karaikudi, Tamilnadu in the year of 2011. She has presented her work in International and National level conferences. Her areas of research interests include network security. Dr.V.PALANISAMY Prof. Dr V.PALANISAMY is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alagappa University, Karaikukdi, Tamilnadu.

Fig -5 The Data is transmitted without Packet loss.

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