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MOBIWORP: Mitigation of the Wormhole Attack in Mobile Multihop Wireless Networks

Overview In multihop wireless systems, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A particularly devastating attack is the wormhole attack, where a malicious node records control traffic at one location and tunnels it to a colluding node, possibly far away, which replays it locally. This can have an adverse effect on route establishment by preventing nodes from discovering legitimate routes that are more than two hops away. Previous works on tolerating wormhole attacks have focused only on detection and used specialized hardware, such as directional antennas or extremely accurate clocks.

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PublisherPurdue University File FormatPDF
Date PublishedNovember 2006
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