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A novel approach for mitigating gray hole attack in MANET

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Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is defined as the category of wireless network that is capable of operating without any fixed infrastructure. The main assumption considered in this network is that all nodes are trusted nodes but in real scenario, some nodes can be malicious node and therefore can perform selective dropping of data packets instead of forwarding the data packets to the destination node. These malicious nodes behave normally during route discovery phase and afterwards drop fractions of the data packets routed through them. Such type of attack is known as smart gray hole attack which is variation of sequence number based gray hole attack. In this paper, we have launched smart gray hole attack and proposed a new mechanism for mitigating the impact of smart gray hole attack. Mitigating Gray hole Attack Mechanism (MGAM) uses several special nodes called as G-IDS (gray hole-intrusion detection system) nodes which are deployed in MANETs for detecting and preventing smart gray hole attack. G-IDS nodes overhear the transmission of its neighbouring nodes and when it detects that the node is dropping the data packets which are greater than threshold value then it broadcast the ALERT message in the network notifying about the identity of malicious node. The identified malicious is then blocked from further its participation by dropping the request and reply packet. In order to validate the effectiveness of our proposed mechanism, NS-2.35 simulator is used. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism performs slightly well as compared with the existing scheme under smart gray hole attack.

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The first author would like to thank Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY), Government of India, for providing financial support to carry out the research work. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editors for giving valuable suggestions in improving this paper.

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Gurung, S., Chauhan, S. A novel approach for mitigating gray hole attack in MANET. Wireless Netw 24, 565–579 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-016-1353-5

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