Detection of Packet Dropping Attack Based on Evidence Fusion in IoT Networks

Table 11

Variables and description.

Variables	Description
The number of uploaded packets	The number of packets that are uploaded to the base station will influence the detection accuracy
The number of nodes	It means the number of nodes deployed in the network, which can affect the scale of the network and the detection accuracy
The percentage of malicious nodes	It means that how many nodes are malicious in the network, which can affect the detection result
The probability of attack	Malicious nodes launch the packet-dropping attack with a probability, and less probability means that the node is more difficult to be detected. It can influence the detection accuracy
The diversity of network	It essentially indicates the ratio of available routing paths that could be chosen by source nodes to upload packets. The diversity of network reflects the routing paths’ complexity, and it influences the detection accuracy