%0 Journal Article %T A Cluster based Technique for Securing Routing Protocol AODV against Black-hole Attack in MANET %A Sonam Yadav %A Kanika Lakhani %J International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Systems %D 2013 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Mobile ad-hocnetworks areprone tovarioussecurity vulnerabilitiesbecause of its characteristicsmainlyhigh mobility of nodes,and no well defined architecture.Security measuresare difficult to implement asthere is nocentral administration. Several attackson Mobile ad-hoc networkhavebeen identified so farand Black hole attack is oneof them. In this paper we discussblack hole attackon Ad-hoc network andpropose a solution to the hijacked node behaving as black hole node. A scenario has been consideredwhere anode inside network has been intruded andcompromised tocause blackholeattack. The proposedsecuritysolutionmodifies original AODV using a hierarchical basedintrusion detectionmethod toidentifyhijacked nodeand exclude the particular node from network %K Black hole %K cluster %K hijacked node %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijdps/papers/4213ijdps02.pdf