International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056 Volume: 03 Issue: 07 | July-2016 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2016, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 4.45 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1620 Solution to Vampire Attacks: Techniques to Make Network Live Vikas Juneja 1 , D.V. Gupta 2 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, JMIT, Radaur, Haryana, India 2 Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering Roorkee (COER), Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of low cost, low energy sensor nodes which collects the information around physical surroundings. Sensing and pervasive computing features of WSN opened up various applications which in turn lead to research work. In various areas such as in military, forest, health, inventory etc., WSN has been implemented. In WSN, Energy is an important factor for sensor node. There is one new type of attack called vampire attack has been exposed which disables network by overwhelming battery life of sensor nodes in a network. The proposed work introduces new methodologies focused on energy based intrusion detection system, path tracking techniques, on energy threshold and packet broadcast threshold of sensor node of network. Earlier it was limited to packet forwarding phase only but not work with topology change. The projected solution is simple and also works with topology change in network. Key Words: Vampire attack, Wireless sensor network, Intrusion detection, Routing,Security. 1.INTRODUCTION A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) constructed of large number of sensor nodes may be in hundreds or thousands. These sensor nodes can transfer information to each other inside network or directly to an outer base-station node. The more sensor nodes make network to sense over more physical areas with higher degree of accuracy. Sensor nodes communicate sensed data to each other and form high-quality useful information about the surroundings [1]. Each sensor node bases its decisions on its goal, currently gathered information, and its proficiency of its computation, transmission, and energy assets. These distributed sensor nodes have the ability to route data either to other sensors or to an external network nodes. This node may be a stationary node or a mobile node proficient of connecting the sensor network to the available communication infrastructure or to the web where a user has access to the sensed information. Attractive features [2] of Vampire attacks that make them the most prominent attack are: • Vampire Attacks are not protocol-specific i.e. they do not target particular protocol. • Vampires use Protocol-Compliant messages. • Transmission of trivial information with largest energy drain is achieved. • They do not interrupt or alter discovered paths. In this paper, the solutions or techniques of the vampire attacks in the wireless ad hoc networks are discussed. These types of attacks not directly link with the protocols; it links with the properties of the routing protocols in the communication networks. This attack affects the properties such as relation state between the nodes, remoteness vectors between the nodes, resource and location based routing. The vampire attack in the WSN is not easy to discover and to predict. Due to the solitary vampire attack in the networks, total force goes down and leads to the complete system to the collapse. In order to overcome the above attacks in the wireless ad hoc networks we proposed techniques for secured transmission in the networks. In order to overcome the above attacks, various techniques such that an efficient intrusion detection system based on energy of nodes, path tracking approach and on energy threshold and packet broadcast threshold of sensor node of network are discussed. The remainder of this paper is organized in three sections. The first section will discuss the related work which familiarizes the earlier security measures on wireless sensor network. Second section will discuss the proposed techniques to overcome the vampire attacks. After that paper is concluded.