International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 73 - Number 20 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Parminder Singh, Damandeep Kaur |
10.5120/13011-0309 |
Parminder Singh, Damandeep Kaur . An Approach to Improve the Performance of WSN during Wormhole Attack using Promiscuous Mode. International Journal of Computer Applications. 73, 20 ( July 2013), 26-29. DOI=10.5120/13011-0309
Due to dynamic topology and non-wired infrastructure of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), they are prone to attacks. Wormhole attack is one of the most popular and serious attack in WSNs. In Wormhole attack two or more malicious nodes makes a covert channel which attracts the traffic towards itself by depicting a low latency link and then start dropping and replaying packets in the multi-path route. This paper proposes promiscuous mode method to detect and isolate the malicious node during wormhole attack by using Ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing protocol (AODV) with omnidirectional antenna. This paper proposes that the nodes which are not participating in multi-path routing generates an alarm message during delay and then detects and isolate the malicious node from network.