Severity analysis and countermeasure for the wormhole attack in wireless ad hoc networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 736-745

  Khabbazian, Majid ^a   Mercier, Hugues ^a   Bhargava, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attack analysis; Countermeasures; Shortest path routing; Wireless ad hoc networks; Wormhole attack

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ATTACK ANALYSIS; COUNTERMEASURES; FAST SWITCHING; GRID TOPOLOGIES; MALICIOUS NODES; NETWORK TOPOLOGIES; ONE-TO-ONE COMMUNICATIONS; SEVERITY ANALYSIS; SHORTEST-PATH ROUTING; SIMULATION RESULTS; STRATEGIC PLACEMENTS; SYNCHRONIZED CLOCKS; TARGET NODES; TIME STAMPS; TRANSMISSION TIME; WORMHOLE ATTACK;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 61349151189     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.070536     Document Type: Article

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