Analysing the effect of Wormhole Attack on Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks consist of large number of sensor nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. A distributed network of sensor nodes perform critical tasks in many application areas such as target tracking in military applications, detection of catastrophic events, environment monitoring, health applications etc. Security is the main concern in wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network is vulnerable to different types of attacks that breach the security of the network. The wormhole attack is one of the severe attacks on wireless sensor network. It tunnels the packets from one end to another end by corrupting it. Routing protocols plays a major role of forwarding the data packets by identifying and maintaining the routes in the network. Competence of sensor networks relay on the strong and effective routing protocol used. In this paper, the effect of wormhole attack on routing protocols like AODV, DSR, ZRP and ANODR is analysed on behalf of parameters like throughput, delay and energy consumption.

Keywords: WSN- wireless sensor network, AODV, DSR, ZRP, ANODR