INSENS: Intrusion-tolerant routing for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

This paper describes an INtrusion-tolerant routing protocol for wireless SEnsor NetworkS (INSENS). INSENS constructs forwarding tables at each node to facilitate communication between sensor nodes and a base station. It minimizes computation, communication, storage, and bandwidth requirements at the sensor nodes at the expense of increased computation, communication, storage, and bandwidth requirements at the base station. INSENS does not rely on detecting intrusions, but rather tolerates intrusions by bypassing the malicious nodes. An important property of INSENS is that while a malicious node may be able to compromise a small number of nodes in its vicinity, it cannot cause widespread damage in the network. A prototype implementation in the ns2click simulator is presented to demonstrate and assess INSENS's tolerance to malicious attacks launched by intruder nodes in random and grid topologies.

A Topology Control Algorithm for Interference and Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…The need to acknowledge every message might be a source of unnecessary energy expenditure. Message broadcasting without the need for guaranteeing reception at all nodes, such as in the case of beacons or specific messages (such as cryptographic keys as in [14]) broadcast by the base station to the whole network are also examples where asymmetric links can be used. Additionally, some authors have proposed eliminating ACKs in order to improve the performance of the network.…”

Secure energy efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor network

“…The performance of the proposed scheme SEER is analyzed and compared with three existing protocol SEEM [22], ATSR [24] and INSENS [18] as in the following sub sections.…”

“…WSN introduces a combination of security threats to packet dropping, data altering and jamming. The capabilities of an adversary to eavesdrop, tamper with transmitted packets and inject packets to initiate denial-of-service (DOS) attack [7] have been enhanced due to the broadcast nature of the wireless communication medium [18]. The resource constraints limit the ability for sensor nodes to perform computation intensive public key cryptography such as RSA [1,16], though elliptic curve cryptography offers a promising course of research [11].…”

Preventive Alternate Path Routing Algorithm against Intrusion in Sensor Area Network

“…Deng et al [11] have designed an intrusion-tolerant routing protocol for sensor networks called INSENS which sends every data packet along multiple independent paths but requires feedback message to be send by each node to base station during route discovery phase introducing extra amount of overhead. S.B.…”