On the Detection of Clones in Sensor Networks Using Random Key Predistribution

Brooks, Richard; Govindaraju, P.Y.; Pirretti, Matthew; Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan; Kandemir, Mahmut

doi:10.1109/tsmcc.2007.905824

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“…Another centralized clone detection protocol has been recently proposed in (Brooks et al, 2007). This solution assumes that a random key pre distribution security scheme is implemented in the sensor network.…”

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Pro-Active Prevention of Clone Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Anandkumar¹,

Jayakumar²

2012

Journal of Computer Science

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Problem statement: Wireless mobile sensor networks are deploying large, self-organized and adaptable sets of sensors for many applications such as military, environmental, health care, remote monitoring and other applications. Unfortunately, the simplicity and low-cost of these sensors make eases cloning of compromised nodes by attackers in the network. Due to the unattended nature of wireless sensor networks, an adversary can capture and compromise sensor nodes, make replicas of them and then mount a variety of attacks with these clones. This cloning attack is the entry point for a large span of creepy attacks. In such attack, an adversary uses the credentials of a compromised node to introduce the replicas secretly into the network. These replicas are then used to launch a variety of attacks that challenge the sensor applications. Therefore the detection of node replication or called clone attacks in a wireless sensor network is a fundamental problem. Approach: These clone node attacks are highly dangerous because they allow the attacker to compromise a few nodes to exert control over much of the network. Several clone node detection schemes have been proposed in the literature to defend against such attacks in static sensor networks. A few distributed solutions to address this fundamental problem have been recently proposed. However, these solutions are not satisfactory in Pro-active context. First, they are energy and memory demanding: A serious drawback for any protocol to be used in the WSN-resource-constrained environment. Further, they are vulnerable to the specific adversary models introduced in this study. To overcome the above problems we propose the improved version of Randomized, Efficient and Distributed protocol named SRED-Secure, Randomized and Efficient and Distributed protocol. We show that our emergent algorithms represent a promising new approach to sensor network security by improving its trust aspects with the witness node. Results: The result of the experiments shows that not only the improvement levels of security aspects but also shows that the considerable amount of improvements in memory and time overheads. Conclusion: This method improves the security aspect of wireless sensor networks mainly in unattended environment and improves the real time data acquisition systems in future era.

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Pro-Active Prevention of Clone Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Anandkumar¹,

Jayakumar²

2012

Journal of Computer Science

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“…It is easy for this method to fall into a single-point fault. Brooks et al [14] proposed an algorithm that would detect the node replication attacks by utilizing a statistical model based on the occurrence number of keys used to authenticate the nodes in wireless sensor networks, but the method can only be applied successfully with certain random key pre-distribution schemes. Choi et al [4] proposed a SET protocol in which the whole network is divided into exclusive subsets.…”

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An energy-efficient random verification protocol for the detection of node clone attacks in wireless sensor networks

Zhou

Huang

Wang

et al. 2014

J Wireless Com Network

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It is easy for adversaries to mount node replication attacks due to the unattended nature of wireless sensor networks. In several replica node detection schemes, witness nodes fail to work before replicas are detected due to the lack of effective random verification. This paper presents a novel distributed detection protocol to counteract node replication attacks. Our scheme distributes node location information to multiple randomly selected cells and then linear-multicasts the information for verification from the localized cells. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol improves detection efficiency compared with various existing protocols and prolongs the lifetime of the overall network.

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“…This is one of the early replica detection techniques which rely completely on the base station [1]. The main data structure this algorithm maintains is a key pool.…”

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A Survey on Detection of Clones in Wireless Sensor Networks

Daniel¹,

Preeja.²

2014

IJCA

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Now a days wireless sensor networks (WSN) have wide applications in variety of fields such as military purposes, environmental monitoring, and gathering sensing information in inhospitable locations. But with the increase in use of wireless sensor network the risk of data leakage also increased. The adversary can launch different types of attacks to the network which may subvert the overall functioning of the network. Sometimes the attacker captures some nodes from the network and their credentials will be collected. Some clones of the captured nodes will be created with same credentials and they will be deployed to the network. These nodes act as eavesdroppers of the network data and they will exploit all the privileges of the original captured nodes. So these clones should be detected before they can do much harm to the network. Several algorithms are developed for this purpose.Here a study is carried out on the various novel techniques introduced to detect replicas in wireless sensor networks and their efficiency and performances are analyzed.

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On the Detection of Clones in Sensor Networks Using Random Key Predistribution

Cited by 129 publications

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Pro-Active Prevention of Clone Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Pro-Active Prevention of Clone Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

An energy-efficient random verification protocol for the detection of node clone attacks in wireless sensor networks

A Survey on Detection of Clones in Wireless Sensor Networks

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