SIMULATION OF SECURE AODV IN GRAY HOLE ATTACK FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK

A MANET is an autonomous system of mobile nodes. The system may operate in isolation, or may have gateways and interface with a fixed network. Its nodes are equipped with wireless transmitters/receivers using antennas which may be omni directional (broadcast), highly-directional (point-to-point), or some combination thereof. At a given time, the system can be viewed as a random graph due to the movement of the nodes, their transmitter/receiver coverage patterns, the transmission power levels, and the co-channel interference levels. In this, paper, we are focusing on the concept of gray hole attack in adhoc network & impact of gray hole attack on network. A gray hole is a node that selectively drops and forwards data packets after advertises itself as having the shortest path to the destination node in response to a route request message. Because of the gray hole attack on the network there is an impact on the different performance metrics of the network such as PDR, e2edelay, throughput etc. Our mechanism helps to protect the network by detecting and reacting to malicious activities of any node. Simulation will be carried out by using network simulator tool so as to address the problem of detection & prevention of gray hole attack in mobile ad-hoc network.