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The Sybil attack is a particularly harmful threat to mobile ad hoc networks where a single node illegitimately claims multiple identities. A malicious node may generate an arbitrary number of additional node identities using only one physical device thereby disrupting the normal functioning of the network. In this paper, a certificate based localized authentication scheme is proposed to prevent Sybil attack. Simulation results show that the proposed method can sustain the Sybil attack and protect the system throughput and hence the performance of the network to a considerable extent.
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Anita, E.A.M. (2011). Sybil Secure Architecture for Multicast Routing Protocols for MANETs. In: Abraham, A., Lloret Mauri, J., Buford, J.F., Suzuki, J., Thampi, S.M. (eds) Advances in Computing and Communications. ACC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22709-7_12
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