Detection and Analysis of Black Hole Attack on MANET Using IDS on NS-2: A Review

Wireless networks are gaining popularity to its peak today, as the user’s wants wireless connectivity irrespective of their geographic position. There is an increasing threat of attacks on the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET). Black hole attack is one of the security threat in which the traffic is redirected to such a node that actually does not exist in the network. It’s an analogy to that of the black hole in the universe in which things disappear. The node presents itself in such a way to the node that it can attack others nodes and networks knowing that it has the shortest path. MANETs must have a secure way for transmission and communication which is quite challenging and vital issue. In order to provide secure communication and transmission, researcher worked specifically on the security issues in MANETs, and many secure routing protocols and security measures within the networks were proposed. Previously the works done on security issues in MANET were based on reactive routing protocol like Ad Hoc on Demand Distance Vector (AODV). Different kinds of attacks were studied, and their effects were elaborated by stating how these attacks disrupt the performance of MANET. Black hole attack found in network layer pretends that it has a shortest route to reach to the destination but actually consumes all the packets sent by the source. For this, Intrusion Detection System is implemented using NS-2 by modifying the original AODV protocol and removing the black hole node which drops the maximum packets. We also proposed a method of activating the promiscuous mode by selecting the path of highest sequence number which is helpful in achieving the better Quality of Services (QoS).