Towards securing MintRoute in wireless sensor networks
Islam Hegazy; Reihaneh Safavi-Naini; Carey Williamson;
Abstract
In a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the sensor nodes rely upon a multi-hop routing protocol to relay their data to the base station. However, most WSN routing protocols are vulnerable to attacks in which a malicious node can disrupt the routes, drop, modify, or divert data away from the base station. In this paper, we use the ns-2 network simulator to demonstrate the vulnerability of the MintRoute protocol to link quality attacks by a malicious node. We then propose a novel "sequence number gap trick" as a lightweight means to test for and detect the presence of a malicious attacker. The simulation results show that judicious use of the sequence number gap trick provides robust detection of malicious nodes, preserving the data delivery capabilities of the WSN. ©2010 IEEE.
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Title | Towards securing MintRoute in wireless sensor networks | Authors | Islam Hegazy ; Reihaneh Safavi-Naini ; Carey Williamson | Issue Date | Jun-2010 | Publisher | IEEE | Start page | 1 | End page | 6 | Conference | 2010 IEEE International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks", WoWMoM 2010 | DOI | 10.1109/WOWMOM.2010.5535004 | Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-77955876015 |
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