A Survey on Secure Packet Transmission against Vampire Attack in Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks

Abstract: A wireless sensor network is a class of transducers which is used to monitor and record the conditions of a wireless environment. Denial of service is one of the common attacks in the wireless sensor network. Vampire attack is a kind of denial of service which consumes energy that leads to draining battery-life of the nodes in the network. Since the nodes are battery powered, the network lifetime is minimized. So communication between nodes cannot be made properly and also the packet does not reach the destination during transmission. This attack can be done by either extending the path of nodes or it may form a loop in packet transmission route. In this paper, we present various algorithms on secure packet transmission against vampire attack. This survey gives different algorithms to overcome the vampire attack and provide secure packet transmission in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks.

Keywords: Wireless sensor networks, Wireless ad-hoc networks, Denial of service, Vampire attack.