Digital Investigation of Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Triki, Bayrem; Rekhis, Slim; Boudriga, Noureddine

doi:10.1109/nca.2009.10

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“…Wormhole Attack [18], [19] -In this critical attack, the attacker saves the packets in a network address and the tunnels in another. -It is a significant threat, because it can occur at the beginning, when the sensor nodes are just finding out about the neighboring sensors.…”

Section: Security Methods For the Wireless Sensor Networkmentioning

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Safety in Wireless Sensor Networks: Types of Attacks and Solutions

Kaschel¹,

Mardones²,

Quezada³

2013

SIC

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are highly vulnerable in their security. They are generally deployed in hostile environments to collect different kinds of data, so they are exposed to serious physical and software attacks. Therefore, developing methods to increase security becomes an essential aspect of the study of these networks. WSNs are used in military, medical and biological applications, among others. This paper analyzes the security requirements of WSNs, the main attacks, and their main characteristics; finally it reviews some security methods currently proposed or implemented in these networks, and identifies the possible types of security attacks that can affect the layers of the OSI Reference Model.

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Section: Security Methods For the Wireless Sensor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety in Wireless Sensor Networks: Types of Attacks and Solutions

Kaschel¹,

Mardones²,

Quezada³

2013

SIC

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“…Note that the first column in the table shows some important factors which make WNSs environments unique and different from WLAN. In another work, (Triki et al, 2009) propose a solution to digital forensics investigations when wormhole attacks take place in a WSN. This solution ultimately aims to collect digital evidence, detect colluded nodes and reconstruct the events which occurred during the wormhole attack which allows attackers to transmit a packet from one point to another point in the network by creating 'tunnels' (see Fig.…”

Section: Network Level Investigationmentioning

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Digital Forensics for IoT and WSNs

Karabiyik

Akkaya

2019

Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science

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In the last decade, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are proliferated in many domains including critical infrastructures such as energy, transportation and manufacturing. Consequently, most of the daily operations now rely on the data coming from wireless sensors or IoT devices and their actions. In addition, personal IoT devices are heavily used for social media applications, which connect people as well as all critical infrastructures to each other under the cyber domain. However, this connectedness also comes with the risk of increasing number of cyber attacks through WSNs and/or IoT. While a significant research has been dedicated to secure WSN/IoT, this still indicates that there needs to be forensics mechanisms to be able to conduct investigations and analysis. In particular, understanding what has happened after a failure is crucial to many businesses, which rely on WSN/IoT applications. Therefore, there is a great interest and need for understanding digital forensics applications in WSN and IoT realms. This chapter fills this gap by providing an overview and classification of digital forensics research and applications in these emerging domains in a comprehensive manner. In addition to analyzing the technical challenges, the chapter provides a survey of the existing efforts from the device level to network level while also pointing out future research opportunities.

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“…As presented in [40], an observation network that is virtually separate WSN is forms through observer nodes and base stations. The observers and the BS uses different frequency band than the sensor nodes.…”

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Wormhole Attacks and Countermeasures in Wireless Sensor Networks : A Survey

Patel¹,

Aggarwal²,

Chaubey³

2017

IJET

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Abstract-Wireless sensor networks can be deployed in inhospitable terrains or in hostile environments to provide continuous monitoring and processing capabilities. Due to the wireless and distributed nature, security is very crucial issue in wireless sensor network. Security comes from attacks. Detecting wormhole attack is very hard compared to other attacks because it uses private, out-of-band channel to launch the attack. To launch this type of attack, attacker does not require any cryptographic breaks. Wormhole attack represents one forms of Denial of Service attack. It is a gateway of many more attacks. This paper focuses on the various wormhole detection techniques, the open research areas and future research directions.Keywords: Wireless sensor network, security, distributed, wormhole, out-of-band. I. INTRODUCTION Wireless sensor network consists of large number of sensor nodes. Each sensor node consists of processor, analog to digital converter, transceiver and battery. Sensor nodes are densely deployed. They use broadcast communication primitive. Sensor nodes rely on wireless channels for transmitting and receiving data from other nodes [1,2]. Sink node is the data aggregation point. Wireless sensor networks that are capable of observing the environment, processing data and making decisions based on these observations [3][4][5][6]. These networks are important for a number of applications such as coordinated target detection and localization, surveillance and environment monitoring.Providing security services in sensor networks turns out to be a very challenging task. First, sensor nodes usually have very limited resources such as storage, bandwidth, computation and energy. It is often undesirable to implement expensive algorithms on sensor nodes. Second, sensor nodes are usually deployed in unattended environment. An attacker can easily capture and compromise a few sensor nodes without being noticed. When sensor nodes are compromised, the attacker can learn all the secrets stored on them and launch a variety of attacks [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Thus any security mechanism for sensor networks has to be resilient to compromised sensor nodes. Third, most sensor applications are based on local computation and communication, while adversaries are usually much more powerful and resourceful than sensor nodes.Wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to many attacks, but among all the attacks wormhole attack is very dangerous. Two malicious nodes are located far away and create a high speed tunnel [13][14][15]. At one ends of the tunnel, one malicious node receives the traffic and forwards it to the end of the tunnel to the other malicious node. It is also possible that packet is altered that contains different information. The packets pass through the tunnel can propagate faster compared to the normal path. To launch the attack, attacker does not require knowing the protocols used in the network or the services offered in the network.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we have discussed the ...

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Digital Investigation of Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

Safety in Wireless Sensor Networks: Types of Attacks and Solutions

Safety in Wireless Sensor Networks: Types of Attacks and Solutions

Digital Forensics for IoT and WSNs

Wormhole Attacks and Countermeasures in Wireless Sensor Networks : A Survey

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