Protocols to Mitigate Blackhole Attack in Wireless Networks - A Survey
Abstract: Wireless networks have become an integral part of modern communication systems, enabling seamless connectivity across various devices and applications. They are fundamental to both everyday consumer use and functioning of critical systems in industries ranging from healthcare to transportation, finance, and entertainment. Unlike traditional wired networks, wireless networks use electromagnetic waves for data transmission, offering mobility, scalability, and flexibility in design for a wide range of applications. Wireless networks have come with a number of challenges that can impact performance, reliability, security, dynamic topology, limited resources, energy efficiency, data aggregation, and fault tolerance. These networks are vulnerable to various attacks like blackhole, grey hole, sinkhole etc. The paper presents the literature survey on various trust-based approaches based on trust values, fuzzy logic, machine learning approaches and QoS calculations to mitigate blackhole attack in wireless networks.
Keywords: Blackhole attack, MANETs, mitigate blackhole attack, trust-based protocols, security issues in wireless networks, wireless sensor networks
How to Cite?: B. Sandhya Rani, Kattula Shyamala, "Protocols to Mitigate Blackhole Attack in Wireless Networks - A Survey", Volume 14 Issue 4, April 2025, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 2286-2292, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR25425145513, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR25425145513