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Countermeasures Against Variants of Wormhole in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review

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International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Smart Communication 2019

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Security is an important parameter for wireless sensor network because of the characteristics of a wireless sensor network which includes deployment in unattended environment, remote management, and nodes are easily captured. The major applications include military, health, monitoring environment, etc. The major possible attacks are wormhole, sinkhole, denial of service, selective forwarding, etc. Among all possible attacks, wormhole is a dangerous attack because after launching wormhole tunnel, an attacker can create many other attacks. Two nodes located in two different areas can create tunnel for disturbing routing. In this paper, we have discussed three variants of wormhole, namely, sinkhole-based wormhole, denial of service-based wormhole, black hole-based wormhole, and their countermeasures.

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    Manish Patel

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    Akshai Aggarwal & Nirbhay Chaubey

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    Narendra S. Chaudhari

  3. Applied Computing Graduate Program, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Jorge Luis V. Barbosa

  4. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, THDC-Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, Uttarakhand, India

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Patel, M., Aggarwal, A., Chaubey, N. (2020). Countermeasures Against Variants of Wormhole in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review. In: Singh Tomar, G., Chaudhari, N.S., Barbosa, J.L.V., Aghwariya, M.K. (eds) International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Smart Communication 2019. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0633-8_11

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