Attacks and Countermeasures in Sensor Networks: A Survey

Xing, Kai; Srinivasan, S.; Rivera, Major Jose “Manny”; Jiang, Li; Cheng, Xiuzhen

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73821-5_11

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“…In contrast to previously published work [247,191,122,242,206,253,47,274], we try to give a more comprehensive overview and also discuss the attacks from the point of view of an inside adversary. For this, we consolidate and extend previous work on, amongst others, routing attacks [122], Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks [247,191], various attacks [242,206,253,47,274] or new types of attacks [130,131].…”

Section: Types Of Outsider and Insider Attacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

On handling insider attacks in wireless sensor networks

Krauí

Schneider

Eckert

2008

Information Security Technical Report

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Ehrenwörtliche Erklärung 2Hiermit erkläre ich, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit, mit Ausnahme der in ihr ausdrücklich genannten Hilfen, selbstständig verfasst habe.1 gemäß §20 Abs. 3 der Promotionsordnung der TU Darmstadt 2 gemäß §9 Abs. 1 der Promotionsordnung der TU Darmstadt AbstractWireless sensor networks are a relatively new technology for information gathering and processing. A sensor network usually consists of many, resource constrained sensor nodes. These nodes perform measurements of some physical phenomena, process data, generate reports, and send these reports via multihop communication to a central information processing unit called sink. Depending on the scenario, information gathering and processing is collaboratively performed by multiple sensor nodes, e.g., to determine the average temperature in a certain area.Sensor networks can be used in a plethora of application scenarios. Emerging from military research, e.g., sensor networks for target tracking in a battlefield, sensor networks are nowadays used more and more in civil applications such as critical infrastructure monitoring.For ensuring the functionality of a sensor network, especially in malicious environments, security mechanisms are essential for all sensor networks. However, sensor networks differ from classical (wireless) networks and this consequently makes it harder to secure them. Reasons for this are resource constraints of the sensor nodes, the wireless multihop communication, and the possibility of node compromise. Since sensor nodes are often deployed in unattended or even hostile environments and are usually not equipped with tamper-resistant hardware, it is relatively easy to compromise a sensor node. By compromising a sensor node, an adversary gets access to all data stored on the node, such as cryptographic keys. Thus, deployed security mechanisms such as node-based authentication become ineffective and an adversary is able to perform attacks as a "legitimate" member of the network. Such attacks are denoted as insider attacks and pose a serious threat for wireless sensor networks.In this thesis, we develop concepts and mechanisms to cope with insider attacks in wireless sensor networks. The contribution of this thesis is twofold. First, we propose a new general classification to classify the different approaches to protect against insider attacks. Second, we propose several security protocols to protect against insider attacks.In our classification, approaches to protect against insider attacks are first distinguished by the implemented security strategy. The respective strategies are further subclassified by the applied mechanisms. Related work is integrated in the classification to systematically identify open problems and specific properties in the respective areas. The results may be a basis for future protocol design.The protocols, proposed in the second part of this thesis encompass different areas. First, we propose a protocol to protect against a serious Denial-of-Service attack where an adversary injects or replay...

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Section: Types Of Outsider and Insider Attacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

On handling insider attacks in wireless sensor networks

Krauí

Schneider

Eckert

2008

Information Security Technical Report

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“…The security issues related to WSN has been raised by many researcher (Xing et al, 2010;Li and Gong, 2011;Manjula and Chellappan, 2012;Rathod and Mehta, 2011;Jatav et al, 2012;Gupta et al, 2012;Kim et al, 2012). As far as Science Publications JCS security requirement for WSN is concerned, it must ensure integrity and confidentiality of data and control messages exchanged between sensors and base stations.…”

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Performance Analysis of Adhoc on Demand Distance Vector Protocol With Blackhole Attack in WSN

Ahmed

Bakar²,

Channa

2014

Journal of Computer Science

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The security is major challenging issue in wireless sensor network applications because they are operated in public and unrestrained areas which also makes difficult to protect against tampering or captured by an adversary force that can launch insider attacks to make a node compromised. One type of such attack is black hole attack. Existing AODV routing protocol does not have mechanism to defend against such attacks. In this study, we comprehensively investigates the performance of AODV protocol by simulating it on the various network parameters with various number of blackhole nodes. The metrics for evaluation has been considered as packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, normalized routing overhead and total number of packets drop. The simulation results show that blackhole attack severely degrades the performance of WSN.

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“…sensors cooperate to each other and compose their local data to reach a global view of the environment; sensor nodes also can operate autonomously. In WSNs there are two other components, called "aggregation points" and "base stations" [3], which have more powerful resources than normal sensors. Aggregation points collect information from their nearby sensors, integrate them and then forward to the base stations to process gathered data, as shown in figure1.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%