A Hop-Count Analysis Scheme for Avoiding Wormhole Attacks in MANET

MANET, due to the nature of wireless transmission, has more security issues compared to wired environments. A specific type of attack, the Wormhole attack does not require exploiting any nodes in the network and can interfere with the route establishment process. Instead of detecting wormholes from...

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Main Authors: Chi-Sung Laih, Shang-Ming Jen, Wen-Chung Kuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-06-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/6/5022/