Detection of Black Hole Attack in MANET: A Review

Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc networks are a collection of mobile hosts that communicate with each other without any infrastructure. Security is an essential requirement in mobile ad-hoc networks to provides protected communication between mobile nodes. MANET are vulnerable to various types of attacks .One of main active attacks is black hole attack, it is a denial of service attack and it drops entire incoming packets between one source to destination. In this paper we studied the details about black hole attack, and techniques for detection and prevention of black hole attack.