Early Detection and Prevention of Vampire Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Priyanka Chandragiri¹

¹Assistant Professor in CSE, Christu Jyothi Institute of Technology & Science, Jangaon, India

Abstract

Vampire attacks are not specific to any protocol, but rather rely on the properties of classes of routing protocols. A single Vampire can increase network-wide energy usage by a factor of O (N), where N is the number of network nodes. This paper uses two attacks on stateless protocol in which the Carousel attack is an adversary and sends a packet with a route composed as a series of loops, such that the same node appears in the route many a times, and the Stretch attack where a malicious node constructs artificially long source routes, causing packets to traverse a larger than optimal number of nodes. The vampire attacks are very difficult to detect and prevent.

Keywords

• Ad-hoc Networks, Carousel attack, Stretch attack and malicious discovery attack

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Priyanka Chandragiri. Early Detection and Prevention of Vampire Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 251-255. Print.