A Novel Approach for Preventing Black-Hole Attack in MANETs

Abstract

A black-hole attack in the Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is an attack occurs due to malicious nodes, which attracts the data packets by falsely advertising a fresh route to the destination. In this paper, we present a clustering approach in Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol for the detection and prevention of black-hole attack in MANETs. In this approach every member of the cluster will ping once to the cluster head, to detect the peculiar difference between the number of data packets received and forwarded by the node. If anomalousness is perceived, all the nodes will obscure the malicious nodes from the network.