Bulwark AODV against Black hole and Gray hole attacks in MANET

Abstract

As the technology gets advanced so as the security issues come into the picture. Here we will discuss about one such advancement in the modern world for communication purpose which is ruled by wireless networking. Precisely MANET (Mobile Adhoc Network) plays a huge role in transmission of data without any wired structure. Its distinct nature of maintaining the nodes and links to transmit the data at faster rate has proven its importance in communication media. The major issue with mobile adhoc network is security, there are two major such type of security issues which affects the MANET while transmitting data are Black hole and Gray hole attacks. This paper proposes Bulwark-AODV which prevents single or cooperative Black hole attacks by identifying malicious route replies at source and intermediate nodes and finds a shortest valid path. It also works in case of single adjacent node to the source and when there are multiple Black holes in the network. It detects Gray holes by snooping the ACKs of data packets. Forgery of ACK if any is identified by the source through checking the return time of ACK. Simulation results indicates better performance even though special cases are considered.