Review of Existing Wormhole Attack Discovery Techniques

Abstract

In this report, we describe a severe Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing attack called a wormhole attack and review state-of-the-art ways to thwart wormhole attacks. In a wormhole attack, intruders tunnel the data from one end of the network to the other, leading distant network nodes to believe they are neighbours and making them communicate through the wormhole link. Unlike many other attacks on ad hoc routing, a wormhole attack can not be prevented with cryptographic solutions because intruders neither generate new, nor modify existing, packets, but rather forward existing ones.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA462894

Entities

People

  • Maria A. Gorlatova

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Authentication
  • Computer Networks
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Directional Antennas
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Mesh Networks
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Routing Protocols
  • Sensor Networks
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Travel Time

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Cybersecurity.