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Performance Analysis under MAC Layer Misbehavior Attack in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks



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Mohammed-Alamine El Houssaini, Abdessadek Aaroud, Ali El Hore and Jalel Ben-Othman

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7332/2015.01.006

This work presents a multi-criteria analysis of the MAC (media access control) layer misbehavior of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11 standard, whose principle is to cheat at the protocol to increase the transmission rate by greedy nodes at the expense of the other honest nodes. In fact, IEEE 802.11 forces nodes for access to the channel to wait for a back off interval, randomly selected from a specified range, before initiating a transmission. Greedy nodes may wait for smaller back-off intervals than honest nodes, and then obtaining an unfair assignment. In the first of our works a state of art on the research on IEEE 802.11 MAC layer misbehavior are presented. Then the impact of this misbehavior at the reception is given, and we will generalize this impact on a large scale. An analysis of the correlation between the throughput and the inter-packets time is given. Afterwards, we will define a new metric for measuring the performance and capability of the network.

Mobile ad-hoc networks, MAC IEEE 802.11, misbehavior, ns2 simulations.