SRPM: Secure Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure Based Wireless Mesh Networks
Journal of Network and Systems Management
APNOMS'09 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific network operations and management conference on Management enabling the future internet for changing business and new computing services
The design of reliable routing protocols in wireless mesh networks
ICHIT'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Convergence and hybrid information technology
Secure route selection in wireless mesh networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
CTAC: Control traffic tunneling attacks' countermeasures in mobile wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Secure routing in MANETs using local times
Wireless Networks
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In wireless ad hoc networks, nodes compromise to forward packets for each other to communicate beyond their transmission range. Therefore, networks are vulnerable to wormhole attacks launched through compromised nodes because malicious nodes can easily participate in the networks. In wormhole attacks, one malicious node tunnels packets from its location to the other malicious node. Such wormhole attacks result in a false route with fewer. If source node chooses this fake route, malicious nodes have the option of delivering the packets or dropping them. It is difficult to detect wormhole attacks because malicious nodes impersonate legitimate nodes. Previous algorithms detecting a wormhole require special hardware or tight time synchronization. In this paper, we develop an effective method called Wormhole Attack Prevention (WAP) without using specialized hardware. The WAP not only detects the fake route but also adopts preventive measures against action wormhole nodes from reappearing during the route discovery phase. Simulation results show that wormholes can be detected and isolated within the route discovery phase.