On the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

Román, Rodrigo; Zhou, Jianying; López, Javier

doi:10.1007/11424857_75

Cited by 25 publications

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“…The simplicity of WSNs routing protocols makes them an easy target for several malicious attacks [7,[11][12][13]. Based on Karlof and Wagner [7] research, we can classify the routing attacks into six categories: In addition, the unattended nature and the lack of tamper-resistant hardware cause wireless sensor networks to be vulnerable to various insider attacks, threatening the operation of WSNs.…”

Section: Attacks On Sensors Network Routingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Centralized IDS Based on Misuse Detection for Cluster-Based Wireless Sensors Networks

Hidoussi

Toral-Cruz

Boubiche

et al. 2015

Wireless Pers Commun

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Despite of their energy efficiency, most of WSN's cluster-based routing protocols are vulnerable to security threats. Selective forwarding and black hole attacks are ranked among the most devastating attacks which they target this class of routing protocols. In this paper, a new centralized intrusion detection system is proposed to detect selective forwarding and black hole attacks in cluster-based wireless sensors networks. The main idea is the use of a centralized detection approach, where the base station decides on potential intrusions based on control packets sent from the cluster heads. The proposed intrusion detection technique is simple and energy efficient, it is thus suitable for sensor & Faouzi Hidoussi nodes with resource constrained. The simulation results confirm the expected performance of the proposed IDS in terms of security and energy efficiency.

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Section: Attacks On Sensors Network Routingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Centralized IDS Based on Misuse Detection for Cluster-Based Wireless Sensors Networks

Hidoussi

Toral-Cruz

Boubiche

et al. 2015

Wireless Pers Commun

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“…Our framework is unique within existing, rule-based, security assessment strategies [16] [17] [18]. It enables the security quantification of both the WSN and the application to be performed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Various factors cause these rule-based/ theoretical security assessment frameworks to fail, especially in WSNs. These factors include the complex security algorithms, higher-bit encryption, hard-coded communication protocols, open system architectures, hybrid network models, and network deployment strategies [15] [16] [17] [18]. Some of these are elaborated below.…”

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“…(For example, when the energy issue was found to be a bigger challenge, experts changed their interest to developing smart codes) [12] [15]. -Complex algorithms: Highly complex and unbreakable encryption algorithms from ECC, AES, RAS, and others (employing 64, 128, 256, 1024, and 2048 bits) have been developed and the quest is continuing [12] [18]. Even today, encryption is neither conceived of, nor treated as, the final word for WSN security.…”

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Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

Ashraf

Hashmani

Chowdhry

et al. 2008

2008 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The paper presents a ready-to-use security assessment framework for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The parameters in the proposed security assessment framework perform independent security assessment of WSNs and of their applications. Our proposed framework uses actual responses of the entities (such as nodes, communication link and network response) to assign numerical values for security assessment of WSNs. The method for calculating the optimal values for each security parameter of the framework is also discussed. Our proposed framework is designed to avoid unwanted impacts of the complexities of security algorithms, communication protocols and strong cryptography. Usually, the complexity of algorithms disguises the actual assessment of the WSN, but the independence of the proposed framework from these security-disguising objects makes this framework better than other assessment frameworks in terms of scalability.

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“…Therefore one essential requirement is that each sensor should consume as little power as possible. For additional discussion of this model, we refer to [4,21].…”

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Tree-based key predistribution for wireless sensor networks

Lee

Kwon

2008

Wireless Netw

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The establishment of secure links between neighboring nodes is one of the most challenging problems in wireless sensor networks. In this article, we present an efficient key predistribution scheme for sensor networks such that pairwise keys are defined by iterated hash computations based on a tree structure. Our scheme can be regarded as an improvement of HARPS, Ramkumar and Memon (IEEE J Sel Area Commun 23 (3):611-621, 2005),or a generalization of Leighton and Micali's scheme (Lect Notes Comput Sci 773:456-479, 1994). We rigorously analyze our scheme focusing on the resiliency of the network and hash computational complexity for each node and compare the performance with existing schemes. Specifically, we show that our scheme provides stronger resiliency and requires less hash computational complexity than HARPS.

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On the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

Centralized IDS Based on Misuse Detection for Cluster-Based Wireless Sensors Networks

Centralized IDS Based on Misuse Detection for Cluster-Based Wireless Sensors Networks

Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

Tree-based key predistribution for wireless sensor networks

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