Prevention of sleep deprivation attacks using clustering
Manasi Sarkar, Debdutta Barman Roy · 2011
MANETs are highly vulnerable to attacks due to the open medium dynamically changing network topology, cooperative algorithm, lack of centralized monitoring and management point. The fact that security is a critical problem in implementing mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is widely acknowledged. One of the different kinds of misbehavior a node may exhibit is exhausting a node by consuming its battery power. Routing protocol plays a crucial role for effective communication between mobile nodes and operates on the basic assumption that nodes are fully cooperative. Because of open structure and limited battery-based energy some nodes may not cooperate correctly. In this paper an algorithm is proposed to prevent sleep deprivation attack. The proposed algorithm is based on clustering mechanism.