• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.2223-2242
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• 2019

Distance Vector-Hop (DV-Hop) algorithm is widely used in node localization. It often suffers the wormhole attack. The current researches focus on Double-Wormhole-Node-Link (DWNL) and have limited attention to Multi-Wormhole-Node-Link (MWNL). In this paper, we propose a security DV-Hop algorithm (AMLDV-Hop) to resist MWNL. Firstly, the algorithm establishes the Neighbor List (NL) in initialization phase. It uses the NL to find the suspect beacon nodes and then find the actually attacked beacon nodes by calculating the distances to other beacon nodes. The attacked beacon nodes generate and broadcast the conflict sets to distinguish the different wormhole areas. The unknown nodes take the marked beacon nodes as references and mark themselves with different numbers in the first-round marking. If the unknown nodes fail to mark themselves, they will take the marked unknown nodes as references to mark themselves in the second-round marking. The unknown nodes that still fail to be marked are semi-isolated. The results indicate that the localization error of proposed AMLDV-Hop algorithm has 112.3%, 10.2%, 41.7%, 6.9% reduction compared to the attacked DV-Hop algorithm, the Label-based DV-Hop (LBDV-Hop), the Secure Neighbor Discovery Based DV-Hop (NDDV-Hop), and the Against Wormhole DV-Hop (AWDV-Hop) algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.494-497
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• 2008

In Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), nodes could transmit packets for each other to communicate beyond their transmission range without centralized control. Unlike infrastructure-based wireless networks, due to the unique characteristics of MANETs such as open network architecture, stringent resource constraints and highly dynamic network topology, networks are vulnerable to wormhole attacks launched through colluding nodes. In this paper, we develop an wormhole detection and prevention algorithm for MANET.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1462-1470
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• 2013

This paper proposes an SWAD-KNH(Sybil & Wormhole Attack Detection using Key, Neighbor list and Hop count) technique which consists of an SWAD(Sybil & Wormhole Attack Detection) module detecting an Worm attack and a KGDC(Key Generation and Distribution based on Cluster) module generating and an sense node key and a Group key by the cluster and distributing them. The KGDC module generates a group key and an sense node key by using an ECDH algorithm, a hash function, and a key-chain technique and distributes them safely. An SWAD module strengthens the detection of an Sybil attack by accomplishing 2-step key acknowledgement procedure and detects a Wormhole attack by using the number of the common neighbor nodes and hop counts of an source and destination node. As the result of the SWAD-KNH technique shows an Sybil attack detection rate is 91.2% and its average FPR 3.82%, a Wormhole attack detection rate is 90%, and its average FPR 4.64%, Sybil and wormhole attack detection rate and its reliability are improved.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.73-81
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• 2012

This paper proposes an ETWAD(Encapsulation and Tunneling Wormhole Attack Detection) design based on positional information and hop count on Ad-Hoc Network. The ETWAD technique is designed for generating GAK(Group Authentication Key) to ascertain the node ID and group key within Ad-hoc Network and authenticating a member of Ad-hoc Network by appending it to RREQ and RREP. In addition, A GeoWAD algorithm detecting Encapsulation and Tunneling Wormhole Attack by using a hop count about the number of Hops within RREP message and a critical value about the distance between a source node S and a destination node D is also presented in ETWAD technique. Therefore, as this paper is estimated as the average probability of Wormhole Attack detection 91%and average FPR 4.4%, it improves the reliability and probability of Wormhole Attack Detection.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.149-155
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• 2009

Attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSN), are similar to the attacks in ad-hoc networks because there are deployed on a wireless environment. However existing security mechanism cannot apply to WSN, because it has limited resource and hostile environment. One of the typical attack in WSN is setting up wrong route that using wormhole. To overcome this threat, Ji-Hoon Yun et al. proposed WODEM (WOrmhole attack DEfense Mechanism) which can detect and counter with wormhole. In this scheme, it can detect and counter with wormhole attacks by comparing hop count and initial TTL (Time To Live) which is pre-defined. The selection of a initial TTL is important since it can provide a tradeoff between detection ability ratio and energy consumption. In this paper, we proposed a fuzzy rule-based system for TTL determination that can conserve energy, while it provides sufficient detection ratio in wormhole attack.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• v.73 no.12
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• pp.1800-1807
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• 2018

In this paper, we study the gravitational perturbation of traversable wormhole spacetime, especially the Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime, by using the linearized theory of gravity. We restrict our interest to the first order term and ignore the higher order terms. We assume that the perturbation is axisymmetric. We also assume that the time dependence follows the Fourier decomposition and the angular dependence is expressed in terms of the Legendre functions. As a result, we derive the gravitational perturbation equation of traversable wormhole in terms of a single linear second-order differential equation. As a consequence, we could analyze the unstability of the spacetime with the effective potentials. Furthermore, we consider the interaction between the external gravitational perturbation and the exotic matter, constituting traversable wormholes and its effect on the stability of traversable wormholes.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2008

In wireless sensor networks, an adversary can launch the wormhole attacks, where a malicious node captures packets at one location and tunnels them to a colluding node, which retransmits them locally. The wormhole attacks are very dangerous against routing protocols since she might launch these attacks during neighbor discovery phase. A strategic placement of a wormhole can result in a significant breakdown in communication across the network. This paper presents a compromise-resilient tunneled packet filtering method for sensor networks. The proposed method can detect a tunneled message with hop count alteration by a comparison between the hop count of the message and one of the encrypted hop counts attached in the message. Since the proposed method limits the amount of security information assigned to each node, the impact of wormhole attacks using compromised nodes can be reduced.

• New Physics: Sae Mulli
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• v.68 no.11
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• pp.1262-1267
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• 2018

We introduce a new method to construct wormholes without adopting exotic matters in Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity with a negative cosmological constant. Contrary to the conventional method, the throat of the wormhole is located at the point where the metric solutions are joined smoothly. Thus, exotic matters are not needed to sustain the throat. We consider the behavior of a minimally coupled scalar field to study the stability of the new wormhole. If we define the quasinormal mode of the scalar field as the purely ingoing flux at the throat of the wormhole, the stability of wormhole can be discussed in analogy with the argument that we use for the stability of a black hole. Because an analytic solution can not be found, we suggest a formalism to find quasinormal modes numerically. The crucial difference from the black hole case is that the coefficient of the second-order derivative term of the radial equation is expanded from n = -1, which is contrary to the black hole case where it is expanded from n = 0.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.29 no.spc1
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• pp.283-284
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• 1996

Wormhole solutions of general theory of relativity are known to violate energy conditions. We have considered the possibility of having wormhole solutions in Brans-Dicke theory which is the prototype of scalar-tensor theories of gravity.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.177-184
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• 2010

Secure routing is vital to the acceptance and use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for many applications. However, providing secure routing in WSNs is a challenging task due to the inherently constrained capabilities of sensor nodes. Although a wide variety of routing protocols have been proposed for WSNs, most do not take security into account as a main goal. Routing attacks can have devastating effects on WSNs and present a major challenge when designing robust security mechanisms for WSNs. In this paper, we examine some of the most common routing attacks in WSNs. In particular, we focus on the wormhole routing attack in some detail. A variety of countermeasures have been proposed in the literature for such attacks. However, most of these countermeasures suffer from flaws that essentially render them ineffective for use in large scale WSN deployments. Due to the inherent constraints found in WSNs, there is a need for lightweight and robust security mechanisms. The examination of the wormhole routing attack and some of the proposed countermeasures makes it evident that it is extremely difficult to retrofit existing protocols with defenses against routing attacks. It is suggested that one of the ways to approach this rich field of research problems in WSNs could be to carefully design new routing protocols in which attacks such as wormholes can be rendered meaningless.