Sensors 2017, 17(1), 160; doi:10.3390/s17010160
Localization-Free Detection of Replica Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Similarity Estimation with Group Deployment Knowledge
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College of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Nanjing 210003, China
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College of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Nanjing 210003, China
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Key Lab of “Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology” of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Nanjing 210003, China
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Academic Editor: Kemal Akkaya
Received: 25 November 2016 / Revised: 5 January 2017 / Accepted: 9 January 2017 / Published: 15 January 2017
(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
Abstract
Due to the unattended nature and poor security guarantee of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs), adversaries can easily make replicas of compromised nodes, and place them throughout the network to launch various types of attacks. Such an attack is dangerous because it enables the adversaries to control large numbers of nodes and extend the damage of attacks to most of the network with quite limited cost. To stop the node replica attack, we propose a location similarity-based detection scheme using deployment knowledge. Compared with prior solutions, our scheme provides extra functionalities that prevent replicas from generating false location claims without deploying resource-consuming localization techniques on the resource-constraint sensor nodes. We evaluate the security performance of our proposal under different attack strategies through heuristic analysis, and show that our scheme achieves secure and robust replica detection by increasing the cost of node replication. Additionally, we evaluate the impact of network environment on the proposed scheme through theoretic analysis and simulation experiments, and indicate that our scheme achieves effectiveness and efficiency with substantially lower communication, computational, and storage overhead than prior works under different situations and attack strategies. View Full-TextKeywords:
security in wireless sensor networks; replica node detection; location similarity; deployment knowledge
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Ding, C.; Yang, L.; Wu, M. Localization-Free Detection of Replica Node Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Similarity Estimation with Group Deployment Knowledge. Sensors 2017, 17, 160.
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