Survey of Black Hole Attack Detection Techniques

Abstract — In wireless networking, a network which is set up temporarily with the help of mobile computers moving arbitrary in places that do not have a network infrastructure is called as an ad hoc network. Wireless ad hoc network is a decentralized type of wireless network. An ad hoc network typically refers to any set of networks where all the devices have equal status on a network and are free to associate with any other ad hoc network device in link range. In this type of network, the nodes communicate with each other by forwarding data packets. Therefore, the nodes find a path to the destination node using various routing protocols. However, due to various security vulnerabilities of the routing protocols, wireless ad hoc networks are unprotected to attacks of the malicious nodes. One of these attacks is the Black Hole Attack against network integrity absorbing all data packets in the network. As the data packets in are not successfully reaching the destination node on account of this attack, data loss will occur. This paper presents the survey of latest black hole detection techniques that have been successfully implemented