Analisando o Desempenho de um Sistema de Quóruns Probabilístico para MANETs diante de Ataques Maliciosos.
Due to their characteristics, such as dynamic topology and lack of infrastructure, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are highly vulnerable to attacks. These characteristicsmake hard the design of reliable and secure network management systems. Quorum systems are effective tools for data sharing on traditional networks, ensuring data availability and consistency. Recently, these systems have been applied in MANETs, being PAN, a probabilistic quorum system for ad hoc networks, the first one to consider the characteristics ofMANETs. However, such systems do not take into account malicious nodes in the environment. This work analyzes the impact of lack of cooperation, timing and data manipulation attacks against PAN. Two metrics were used in the evaluation: reliability degree and percentage of malicious nodes on the reading operations. Results show that PAN is vulnerable to these attacks, specially to the data manipulation, in which the system correctly conclude only 2% of reading when submitted to 30% of attackers in the writing operations.