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Owing to their deployment characteristics, wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to many more attacks than wired sensor networks. The wormhole attack is a serious threat against wireless sensor networks. Launching this type of attack is easy for an attacker; it requires no breaking of a cryptographic mechanism. However, detecting the attack is very difficult. Moreover, after conducting the wormhole attack, an attacker can create more dangerous attacks. In this paper, we analyze the effects of wormhole attacks, discuss various detection features, and provide a comparison of various approaches. This paper presents various research challenges in the area of wormhole detection in wireless sensor networks.
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The authors are highly thankful to the Gujarat Technological University (Smt. S.R. Patel Engineering College, Unjha) for providing the opportunity to conduct this research work.
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Patel, M., Aggarwal, A., Chaubey, N. (2018). Analysis of Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Sa, P., Bakshi, S., Hatzilygeroudis, I., Sahoo, M. (eds) Recent Findings in Intelligent Computing Techniques . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 708. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8636-6_4
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