This document discusses resolving vampire attacks, which are resource depletion attacks that disable battery power, in ad-hoc low-power wireless networks. It explores these types of attacks at the routing protocol layer and how they are difficult to detect and devastating. The paper proposes mitigating vampire attacks by improving an existing protocol called PLGP.

1. RESOLVING VAMPIRE ATTACK IN AD-HOC LOW-POWER
WIRELESS NETWORKS USING IMPROVED PLGP
ABSTRACT:
Ad-hoc low-power wireless networks are in research in both sensing and pervasive
computing. Prior security work in this area has been focused on denial of communication.
This paper explores resource depletion attacks at the routing protocol layer, which disables
battery power. “Vampire” attack is not specific to any specific protocol as they are difficult
to detect and devastating. We mitigate these types of attacks by improving an already
existing protocol called PLGP.