LIMITING THE ENERGY DRAIN IN WIRELESS AD HOC SENSOR NETWORKS

Bhargavi, Srigitha S. Nath, Preethi.S

Abstract: Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor networks are exciting fields of research. This paper explores resource depletion attacks where the battery of the node gets depleted excessively thereby making the node incapable of communication. The packet travels longer distances than actually required, therefore draining the energy of nodes. Stretch and Carousel attacks take place in the network which leads to looping and longer route generation in the network. To reduce such attacks, a new protocol is proposed which uses indexing number in order to reduce the energy loss due to unwanted path traversal of packet in the network

Keywords: Stretch attack; Carousel attack; Resource depletion attacks.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304039