Performance analysis of black hole attacks in geographical routing MANET

The MANET (Mobile Adhoc Network) is vulnerable to several types of attacks. The most commonly classified attack is black hole attack, which is carried by single or multiple attackers, advertising itself of having a short fresh route to transmit data. The aim is to ensure security against the black hole attack and analyze the performance in geographical routing. The simple method is to send data as small blocks instead of entire data. The traffic is monitored independently in its neighborhood. The mechanism uses geographic information to detect variance in neighbor relations and node movements. We analyze the black hole attack in two popular location based protocol LAR and DREAM. It provides the stimulation study of black hole attack with the minimum attacker and also provides analysis on the parameters such as throughput, packet delivery and delay done with OMNET++ simulator. The simulation results show that packet loss increases and throughput decreases in the network with a black hole node in geographical routing. The proposed mechanism can be combined with existent routing protocols to defend against black hole attacks.