Using Directional Antennas to Prevent Wormhole Attacks

By Lingxuan Hu, David E. Evans. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2004

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Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (2007, methodology): “Simulation results in [177] show that when the nodes have around 10 other nodes within the range of their directional antennas, around 58% of all potential links are lost, and 5.”
Countermeasures Against Traffic Analysis Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks (2005, background): “secure data communication [17], secure routing [14, 12, 5], secure data aggregation [19], and pairwise key setup [8, 3, 7, 15, 26].”
Securing wireless sensor networks: a survey (2008, methodology): “Wormhole packet leashes [105], directional antennas [120],”
Wireless Sensor Network Security: A Survey (2006, background): “[30] introduce directional antennas to defend against wormhole attacks.”
DoS Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Survey (2012, background): “Directional Antennas [19,20] Each pair of nodes determines the direction of received signals from neighbor; if directions match, relation is set Not applicable to network without directional antennas”
Wormhole attacks in wireless networks (2006, background): “Hu and Evans propose to use directional antennas to detect wormhole attacks [14].”
Visualization of wormholes in sensor networks (2004, background): “Research efforts have been put on wormhole detection in ad hoc networks and encouraging results have been collected [13, 4, 12].”
Detecting and correcting malicious data in VANETs (2004, background): “Indeed, directional antennas are used effectively to protect against wormhole attacks aimed at disrupting routing in [6].”
Localization for mobile sensor networks (2004, background): “Known defenses for wormhole attacks rely on either nodes already knowing their locations [22], or require specialized hardware such as tightly synchronized clocks [22] or directional antennas [21].”
A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2007, background): “Directional antennas [42] are also proposed to prevent wormhole attacks.”
Security of the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures (2019, methodology): “Directional antennas [136] were also used to defend against the Wormhole attack, where some direction information is used to detect the replayed packets.”
A Survey on Wireless Sensor Network Security (2009, background): “Hu et al have presented a mechanism that employs directional antenna to combat wormhole attack [35].”