Wormhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Critical Review

A Wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors is prone to numerous kinds of threats and attacks due to various reasons such as unattended nature of deployment in an un-trusted environment, limited network resources, easy network access as well as range of radio transmission. Wormhole attack is one such attack where an intruder establishes a low latency link between two sensor nodes so as to misguide the nodes and exhaust network resources by gaining access to sensitive information. This paper outlines the wormhole attack in WSN and provides a critical review on the techniques to deal with it. Various wormhole detection techniques and prevention mechanisms that can be used to counter the wormhole attack in WSN are compared and analyzed briefly in this paper.

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