Performance Enhancement of MANET Against Wormhole Attacks Using Modified Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Protocol

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) has improved to be essential components of our daily lives. Due to its compatibility with multimedia data interchange in a mobile context, MANETs are employed in a variety of applications today, including those for crisis management and the battlefield, The popularity of infrastructure-less networks has grown along with the popularity of ad hoc networks in recent years as a result of the rise in wireless devices and technological developments MANETs have brought about a new type of technologies that allow them to operate without a fixed infrastructure. The dynamic nature of the MANET network makes it susceptible to numerous attacks. One of these is the wormhole, which spreads data from one site to another and can damage the network. If the source node chooses this fictitious route, the attacker has a backup plan to deliver or drop packets. In this paper, we proposed a technique by modifying the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance vector protocol (AODV) in the stage of RREQ and RREP with the sequence number transaction and the detection timer(DT). The proposed method when reached to 100 nodes, achieved the throughput of 95.5kbps, energy consumption of 55.9joule, end to end delay of 0.973sec and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) of 96.5%.