A survey of attacks in mobile ad hoc networks

The vulnerabilities of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are subject of numerous kinds of attacks. Many classification schemas and taxonomies of MANET attacks have been proposed in the literature in order to understand the technique of the attack as well as the behavior of attackers. The following paper presents a new classification of attacks in MANET. We distinguish three leading classes of attacks in MANET: In the first class, we make a large analysis of attacks according to the OSI models. In the second, the classification is performed according to the principal main factors leading to this attack such as sources of attacks, attacker behavior and involved nodes. In the third, we performed the analysis according to the target service chosen by the attacker.