Mobile Sink Using Multiple Channels to Defend Against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks Conference Paper

abstract

• Security is a necessity for many sensor-network applications. A particularly harmful attack against sensor networks is known as the wormhole attack, where an adversary tunnels the messages received in one part of the network over a low-latency link and replays them in a different part of the same network. This article presents the threat posed by wormhole attacks to wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks. A novel technique that involves leveraging channel diversity for defense against the wormhole attack has been proposed. Through quantitative analyses, it is shown that even when 50% of a sensor node's neighbors are malicious devices, the provision of one extra available channel for communication with the mobile sink reduces the probability of a wormhole attack to almost zero. 2009 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2009 IEEE 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference

authors

• Mahapatra, Rabinarayan

published proceedings

• 2009 IEEE 28TH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (IPCC 2009)

author list (cited authors)

• Rasheed, A., & Mahapatra, R.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Rasheed, Amar||Mahapatra, Rabi

publication date

• December 2009

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference, Proceedings  Journal

keywords

• Key Pre-distribution
• Scheme
• Sensor Networks
• Wormhole Attacks

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/PCCC.2009.5403840

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-1-4244-5737-3

start page

• 216

end page

• 222

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Fpccc.2009.5403840