International Journal of Science, Engineering and TechnologyAuthors: Chhatrapani Gautam, Associate Professor Dr. Ankur Pandey
Abstract: FANET Flying ad hoc networks are a promising technology and have enormous potential to be working in critical situations in farming, land investigation, habitat monitoring, smart homes, and many more scenarios. One of the major challenge in FANET facing today is security. In this paper, we propose a flooding identification-based heuristic scheme against vampire attackers in FANET. These types of attacks flood the network with unnecessary packets, consuming bandwidth and affecting data delivery due to high energy consumption. The main aim is to visualize the effect of a vampire attack on the network and identify the UAVs that are affecting its performance. The heuristic security scheme checks the profile of each UAV in the network, and if an attacker is identified as one of the UAV or UAVs that flooding unnecessary packets and the security scheme has blocked that attacker's malicious functioning. The functioning of heuristic based flooding scheme has blocked the performance of the attacker. The attacker aim is only to disturb the normal communication among the UAVs in FANET. The performance of a network is measured on the basis of performance metrics such as routing load, throughput, and end to end delay. The simulation results indicate that the performance is the same for both normal routing and the heuristic scheme, demonstrating that the security scheme is effective and shows better performance. This effectiveness highlights the robustness of the security scheme for vampire attackers in maintaining network integrity, even in the face of potential threats.
