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A Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a self configuring, infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected by wireless links. Lack of fixed infrastructure, wireless medium, dynamic topology, rapid deployment practices and the hostile environments in which they may be deployed, make MANET vulnerable to a wide range of security attacks and wormhole attack is one of them. During wormhole attack a malicious node captures packets from one location in the network, and tunnels them to another malicious node at a distant point, which replays them locally. In this paper wormhole attacks against various kinds of mobile ad-hoc network routing protocols have been studied in detail. We have classified the well known countermeasures against the wormhole attack according to their detection and prevention techniques, and have also carried out a detailed comparative analysis of these techniques according to their relative advantages and disadvantages.
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Banerjee, S., Majumder, K. (2012). A Comparative Study on Wormhole Attack Prevention Schemes in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network. In: Thampi, S.M., Zomaya, A.Y., Strufe, T., Alcaraz Calero, J.M., Thomas, T. (eds) Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security. SNDS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34135-9_37
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