Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network platforms are less expensive and more powerful having tiny electronic devices called Motes (sensor nodes). Wireless sensor networks enhance its popularity in military and health centric research areas; now it is also popular in industrial area. Security is the main requirement of wireless sensor networks. This paper describes the network layer attacks which lead to subvert the network functionality. Amongst them, the wormhole attack is a severe threat to WSNs. This attack completely disrupts the network topology by altering the message, by relaying old and fake messages in the network. Researchers have developed and proposed many detection mechanisms to detect and prevent the wormhole attack. The aim of this paper is to elaborate the simulation results and also compare the performance of wormhole detection techniques (Transmission time based, Range based and MDS based) that are popular in WSNs.
Keywords: WSN, Wormhole, Motes, MDS, LCT and UDG methods.
Title: A Qualitative Comparative Study: Wormhole Attack Detection Techniques in WSN at Network Layer
Author: Manisha, Gaurav Gupta, Nivedita Kashyap, Ruchika Chandel, Vandana Sharma
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-120X (online), ISSN 2348-1196 (print)
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