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Sinkhole attack in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is most vulnerable attack in WSN that prevents the base station from gathering complete and unmodified data from its origin. A simple authentication mechanism is not adequate to prevent WSN from sinkhole attacks as signed routing can also be easily done by compromised nodes. Hence in this paper we addressed the problem sinkhole attack detection in WSN using swarm-based algorithm namely artificial bee colony algorithm. This algorithm finds the compromised node by comparing the node ID’s defined in the rule set. ABC reduces the overall time complexity taken to find the compromised node which turns to reduces the packet loss percentile and increases the packet delivery ratio. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated and compared with the existing methodologies. The results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing methodologies in terms of packet loss, packet delivery ratio and energy consumption.
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Nithiyanandam, N., Latha, P. Artificial bee colony based sinkhole detection in wireless sensor networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01404-0
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