A comprehensive verification of the header format and bandwidth utilization to detect distributed denial of service attack in vehicular ad hoc network

Abstract

Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a promising technology for controlling traffic on roads. Nowadays, heavy traffic is a major issue, and the presence of attackers exacerbates the situation. The most important challenge in VANET is its security from malicious vehicles. In order to defend against distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, we propose a comprehensive verification header format bandwidth detection (CVHB) in VANET. The behavior of a DDoS attack is unknown for all the other normal nodes in network. The header format of packer contains all the information of nodes that are actively participating in routing. The attacker infection probability measured by 𝑃𝑏 and 𝑃𝑚 or (𝑃𝑏 > 0.9). If both the parameters are high means attacker presence confirm in network. The CVHB scheme checks the packet header format of the attacker node, and only the attacker is one of the nodes whose sequence number is frequently changing. So, CVHB blocks the flooding of unwanted packets that consume the limited bandwidth of a wireless link and identify packets that contain no useful information. To measure the performance of the network, the basic performance metrics that are used are dropping percentage, packet delivery ratio (PDR), throughput and delay. The result of CVHB is showing improvement as compared to multilayer distributed self-organizing maps (MSOM) in VANET.