A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY ON SYBIL ATTACKS MITIGATION TECHNIQUES

Volume: 2    Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2015

Pages: (45-49)

Authors: Sakshi Gupta, Taranjit Singh Aulakh

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Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-governing network that comprises of several nodes and also these specific nodes utilizes wireless links to interconnect through each former network. The structureless characterstics of MANET makes it vulnerable to various attacks. Any decentralized distributed network is particularly vulnerable to the Sybil attack wherein a malicious node masquerades as several variety of nodes, entitled as Sybil nodes, instantaneously in an endeavor to disrupt the proper functioning of the system. Such type of attacks may become reason for the impairment on an honestly large scale especially since they are difficult to detect and there has been no universally accepted scheme to counter them as yet. Defending against Sybil attacks is reasonably stimulating. In this paper, we discuss the different previous existing techniques to detect Sybil attacks.

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Keywords

Security, Sybil attack, MANETs, Ad-hoc network.