Visualisation of wormholes in underwater sensor networks: a distributed approach

We propose a distributed mechanism, Dis-VoW, to detect wormhole attacks in under-water sensor networks. In Dis-VoW, every sensor reconstructs local network layout using multi-dimensional scaling. It detects the wormholes by visualising the distortions in edge lengths and angles among neighbouring sensors. The contributions include: • Dis-VoW does not depend on any special hardware • it provides a localised wormhole detection mechanism adapting to network topology