MoteSec-Aware: A Practical Secure Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Abstract-Ensuring the security of communication and access control in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is of paramount importance. In this paper, we present a security mechanism, MoteSec-Aware, built on the network layer for WSNs with focus on secure network protocol and data access control. In the secure network protocol of MoteSec-Aware, a Virtual Counter Manager (VCM) with a synchronized incremental counter is presented to detect the replay and jamming attacks based on the symmetric key cryptography using AES in OCB mode. For access control, we investigate the Key-Lock Matching (KLM) method to prevent unauthorized access. We implement MoteSec-Aware for the TelosB prototype sensor platform running TinyOS 1.1.15, and conduct field experiments and TOSSIM-based simulations to evaluate the performance of MoteSec-Aware. The results demonstrate that MoteSec-Aware consumes much less energy, yet achieves higher security than several state-of-the-art methods.

Secure System Practices and Data Access Management in Wireless Sensor Network

“…To handle this it is necessary that some authentication mechanism should be there for preventing the communications in the network from DoS attacks. There have been many authentication schemes proposed for wireless sensor networks [1]. But Constrained Function based Authentication (CFA) [13] is only scheme of authentication which is supporting en-route filtering with only single packet overhead.…”

“…SPIN technique uses synchronization between sender and receiver in system. MiniSec achieves low energy consumption by appending a few bits of the IV to each packet [1]. Another works focuses on secure network protocol and there is no consideration for security of data stored inside the node.…”

“…Through simple computations on the basis of keys and locks, protected memory data can be accessed. Here, data access control is designed exclusively for function nodes [1].…”

“…These sensor nodes will have limited resources of power, storage, communication and processing capabilities [2] [3] [4]. Since sensor nodes may collect sensitive information security and privacy of nodes become an important issue in large number of nodes WSNs [1]. Because sensor nodes are resource limited nodes our conventional security mechanisms are not suitable for WSNs, therefore special security methods are need to be implemented.…”

Amn-Pso Method For Jamming Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network

“…For securing the networks against jamming attacks, detection techniques schemes [2,5,6,8] and countermeasures [7,[9][10][11][12] were presented in some literatures. In [5], DOS attacks detection in IEEE 802.11 networks was studied, and a robust nonparametric detection mechanism for the CSMA/CA media-access control layer DOS attacks was presented.…”