Defense Technology of Wormhole Attacks Based on Node Connectivity

After wormhole attacks the routing mechanism of wireless sensor network (WSN) is damaged, then the hop count and distance between nodes cannot be well matched, so that the WSN becomes the anisotropic sensor network, resulting in security treats for WSN. Considering that wormhole attacks can cause the changing of node connectivity, through the theoretical analysis and derivation, the paper has proposed a method which detects wormhole attacks with the connected relation of high connectivity nodes, and optimizes routing with the help of the normal nodes outside the wormhole. Simulation results show that the algorithm can well detect wormhole attacks and has better localization accuracy In addition, the effect is more obvious in the case of the wormhole nodes with large communication radius and long distance.