Wormhole attack in mobile ad-hoc network: A survey

Abstract

Security is the one of the major issue that exists in Mobile Ad hoc network. Mobile Ad hoc network is infrastructure less network so it is vulnerable to several security attacks that are on different layers. Wormhole attack is one of the serious routing attack on network layer. This paper focuses on the wormhole attack, its classification and the modes by which they are launched. This paper summarizes various detection techniques proposed for wormhole attack and also present the effect of wormhole attack on various performance parameters.