Address Resolution Protocol Based Attacks: Prevention and Detection Schemes

Address resolution protocol (ARP) is considered as the important protocol in computer communications due to frequent usage in individual as well as organization levels. Though efficient during regular scenarios, the design of ARP has not been designated to tackle malicious hosts. Considering the adverse circumstances, many researchers have developed strategies to improve the effectiveness of ARP by detecting and preventing the malicious attacks like spoofing, Denial of service (DoS) and Man in the middle (MITM) attacks. This paper discusses about the ARP poisoning attacks and focuses on reviewing various mechanisms developed for attack detection and prevention with specified analysis to their advantages. Different attack detection and mitigation methods are evaluated in addition to comparison in terms of key parameters. This study helps in understanding the strategy employed for ARP attack detection and mitigation and developing a framework for improvement.

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