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Infrastructure-less Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) in the absence of any centralized controlling authority are highly vulnerable to various types of malicious attacks. Amongst these attacks, Sybil attack is one such deadly attack that can disrupt the normal functioning of most of the VANET protocols without getting detected easily. In this attack, a legitimate vehicle with malicious intentions enters the network and can mischievously launch a few virtual vehicles camouflaging these virtual vehicles in such a way that these appear to be the legitimate vehicles for all other legitimate vehicles in the network. These superficial vehicles are known as Sybil vehicles and intend to affect the routing mechanism in a VANET by helping the malicious node to assume control of the network. In this paper, we have explored the possibility of Sybil attack disrupting the normal functioning of Position-Based category of Routing Protocols in a VANET. Our exploration here focuses only on one of the significant protocols in the category known as, the Greedy Perimeter Coordinator Routing (GPCR) protocol. With the help of the results of experimental setups, it has been shown that it is always possible for the Sybil attack to disrupt the functioning of GPCR protocol in a VANET. We are also in the process of exploring the impact of Sybil attack on other significant routing protocols for VANETs separately.
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Nishtha, Sood, M. (2020). Exploring the Possibility of Sybil Attack in Position Based Routing Protocols in VANETs: A Case Study of Greedy Perimeter Coordinator Routing (GPCR). In: Batra, U., Roy, N., Panda, B. (eds) Data Science and Analytics. REDSET 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1230. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5830-6_7
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