Transport Layer Attacks, Application Layer attacks and its solution in WSN
The transport layer controls the reliability of a given link through flow control, segmentation and de-segmentation, and error control.
Some protocols are state- and connection-oriented.
This means that the transport layer can keep track of the segments and retransmit those that fail.
The attacks that can be launched on the transport layer in a WSN are
flooding attack and
de-synchronization attack
Flooding - Whenever a protocol is required to maintain state at either end of a connection,
It becomes vulnerable to memory exhaustion through flooding.
An attacker may repeatedly make new connection request
until the resources required by each connection are exhausted or reach a maximum limit.
In either case, further legitimate requests will be ignored.