A Novel Scheme of Detection and Eradication of Wormhole Attack

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks are one of the research areas which are continuously explored by researchers. There are multifaceted applications associated with them. The smart sensor nodes are the building blocks of WSN. These are capable of processing and computations but are shorten of resources. As security consideration is not given to WSN; these are prone to various threats. One of the attacks is wormhole attack subjected for replaying and data drop; causing destruction in networks. A lot of exploration has been done by research scholars to deal with security affairs. Although, various routing techniques cropped with security mechanisms but still the problem is not vanished. There is an urgent demand of robust security mechanism for WSN to be more reliable. In this thesis, a wormhole detective scheme is proposed. Scheme has advantages of not using hardware or any synchronization. The simulation is done on NS2. The network parameters have been evaluated. The results of simulation verified the functioning of nominated scheme.