Preventing Wormhole Attacks in Mobile Commerce

Currently, several researches have concentrated on the new or vital security requirements of mobile commerce. However, some recent studies asserted a particular serious attack, called wormhole attack, that mainly targeting in a wireless-based system may also occur in the mobile commerce systems. Although there are many endeavors to confront wormhole attacks in the field of wireless communications, the solutions still have respective problems to be overcome and are not yet tailor-made for mobile commerce environment. This paper is the first one to unveil the emergence of wormhole attacks in mobile commerce and also proposes the precautionary method to prevent them. On the other hand, considering that the mobile device with limited resource, we utilize the secure filter to efficiently manage group key. Moreover, the proposed secure routing scheme is not only more efficient and robust than that in Ariadne but also resolve the new problem of Ariadne (insider attack) that is demonstrated by Acs et al.