A Novel Approach for Prevention and Removal of Black-Hole Attack in Wireless Autonomous Mesh Networks
Mohammed Jawhar · 2025
Due to widespread availability of mobile devices, a lot of research has gone into the development of MANETs, and it is widely used. Mobile Ad Hoc Network(MANET) is also known as wireless Ad Hoc network or mesh mobile network. An ad hoc network is a network that is composed of individual devices communicating with each other directly. MANETs are self-configuring Ad Hoc networks, i.e., its free to move independently in any direction and change its links to other mobile devices. In MANET each node is able to send and receive the routing request, so it can act as host or router. Due to their infrastructure-less property and self-configuring nature, it poses serious drawbacks from a security point of view, like routing attacks. We focus on black-hole attacks which is a form of Denial of Service attack under routing attacks. Black-hole attack is an attack on routers where the malicious node sends a router reply informing that it has the shortest distance to the destination.