Black Hole Effect Analysis and Prevention through IDS in MANET Environment

Kamini Maheshwar, Divakar Sing

Abstract

In Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) every node functions as transmitter, router and data sink is network without infrastructure. It must discover its local neighbors and through them it will communicate to nodes that are out of its transmission range. Various features like open medium, dynamic topology, lack of clear lines of defense, makes MANET vulnerable to security attacks. Ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing (AODV) is one of the best and popular routing algorithm. AODV is severely affected by well-known black hole attack in which a malicious node injects a faked route reply message that it has a fresh route to destination. In this paper Intrusion Detection and Response Protocol for MANETs have been demonstrated that perform better than AODV protocol in presence of Black Hole Attack, in terms of false positives and percentage of packets delivered. Security in MANET against Black Hole attack is provided by using IDSAODV routing protocol and the result are analyzed using an Optimized Network Engineering Tool NS-2, through various network parameter bases like TCP analysis , UDP analysis, Packet delivery ratio, Routing load etc.