An Efficient Approach for Wormhole Detection in MANET

A MANET is a collection of self-configured node connected with wireless links. Each node of a mobile ad hoc network acts as a router and finds out a suitable route to forward a packet from source to destination. This network is applicable in areas where establishment of infrastructure is not possible, such as in the military environment. Along with the military environment MANET is also used in civilian environment such as sports stadiums, meeting room. The routing functionality of each node is cause of many security threats on routing. In this paper addressed the problem of identifying and isolating wormhole attack that refuse to forward packets in wireless mobile ad hoc network. The impact of this attack has been shown to be detrimental to network performance, lowering the packet delivery ratio and dramatically increasing the end-to-end delay. Proposed work suggested the efficient and secure routing in MANET. Using this approach of buffer length and RTT calculation, routing overhead minimizes. This research is based on detection and prevention of wormhole attacks in AODV. The proposed protocol is simulated using NS-2 and its performance is compared with the standard AODV protocol. The statistical analysis shows that modified AODV protocol detects wormhole attack efficiently and provides secure and optimum path for routing.