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Node Compromise Detection Based on Parameter Grouping in Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:
Manyam Thaile
Oruganti Bala Venkata Ramanaiah

Keywords: node compromise detection; software attestation; parameter grouping; wireless sensor network security

Abstract:
Node Compromise Detection (NCD) is an essential requirement for dealing with potential attacks in randomly deployed, unattended and not tamper resistant wireless sensor networks applications. Behaviour based concepts, such as false information communication by a compromised node (ZoneTrust), are reported in literature. In our work, more effective parame- ters, namely, packet sending rate, depletion of node energy, node location, and node non-availability are identified for NCD. All these parameters are used to detect a compromised node either conjunctively (AND model) or disjunctively (OR model). The OR model is suitable for military surveillance; and the AND model is suitable for weather monitoring applications. The OR model incurs a lot of overhead whereas the AND model suffers from high risk of attack. To alleviate these demerits Parameter Grouping (PG) concept is proposed to retain the merits of both AND and OR models. An extensive NS-2 based simulation work was carried out and found that the proposed NodeTrust-based PG improves the system performance substantially

Pages: 14 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: July 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-493-0

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 24, 2016 to July 28, 2016