A secure routing scheme for mobile wireless sensor networks

2016

1Student, Dept. of Information Technology, AISSMS College of Engineering, Kennedy Road, Pune, India 2Student, Dept. of Information Technology, AISSMS College of Engineering, Kennedy Road, Pune, India 3Student, Dept. of Information Technology, AISSMS College of Engineering, Kennedy Road, Pune, India 4Student, Dept. of Information Technology, AISSMS College of Engineering, Kennedy Road, Pune, India 5Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, AISSMS College of Engineering, Kennedy Road, Pune, India

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Sciences and its Applications (ICCSA), Fukuaka, Japan, Springer LNCS Vol 6018, pp. 277-290, March 2010, 2010

Wireless sensor networking has been a subject of extensive research efforts in the recent years, and has been well recognized as a ubiquitous and general approach for some emerging applications such as a real-time traffic monitoring, ecosystem and battlefield surveillance. Since these networks deal with sensitive data, it is imperative that they are made secure against various types of attacks such as node capture, physical tampering, eavesdropping, denial of service etc. This paper presents a secure routing mechanism for wireless sensor networks. The protocol is resilient in the presence of malicious nodes that may launch selective packet dropping attack on the routing path. The scheme employs single-path routing, and therefore, it is energy-efficient. While the packets are forwarded towards the base station, if any node fails to forward a packet, it is isolated immediately. Packets are then routed around the node. Simulation conducted on the scheme clearly demonstrates that it is more efficient than some of the existing similar schemes.

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2021

WSNs are vulnerable to a wide range of security threats, and security is crucial in facilitating secure communication. The rapid growth of wireless communication and related fields has re-energized academia-industry collaboration to develop more secure and efficient routing strategies. Because WSN nodes have limited energy, they frequently die, resulting in pre-mature link outages, data loss, retransmission delays, and low battery. The existence of a malicious node in the network has a negative impact on network performance. Secure routing protocols, which can transfer packets using secure paths, are required to protect WSNs from security attacks and malware. Since security important in WSN, Various secure routing protocols are developed to improve packet transmission efficiency. Different schemes for providing security are Cryptography, Intrusion detection, and Secure routing. This paper aims to study various routing mechanisms that offer secure and robust packet transmission from source to destination. Finally, the paper contributes to discussing the difficulties in developing a routing protocol for WSNs that considers the interdependency of various network parameters.

Book Chapter in Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks, Yen Kheng Tan (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-297-5, INTECH Publishers, Croatia, December 2010. Chapter 12, pp. 279 – 309. , 2010

In this chapter, we first identify different types of attacks which are possible on the network-layer of a WSN such as: (i) spoofed routing information, (ii) selective packet forwarding, (iii) sinkhole, (iv) Sybil, (v) wormhole, (vi) Hello flood, (vii) acknowledgment spoofing etc. These attacks are described in detail clearly explaining how these attacks are launched by an adversary. Then we present detailed discussion on the defense mechanisms for such attacks. Schemes like use of message authentication code (MAC), packet leashes, directional antenna-based defense, client puzzles are discussed. Secure broadcasting and multicasting techniques based on group key management protocols and directed diffusion-based mechanism are also presented. In addition, some of the well-known existing secure routing protocols for WSNs such as μTESLA, INSENS, SPINS, TRANS, and defense mechanisms against Sybil attack, blackhole and grayhole attacks are also discussed in detail.

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2013

Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been deployed into a variety of applications including homeland security, military systems, and health care. Sensor nodes deployed in such networks are subject to several attacks such as sinkhole and select forwarding, wormhole, Hello flood, and replication attacks. Therefore, developing secure and energy-efficient routing protocols to protect WSNs against these attacks while efficiently utilizing the energy of the deployed nodes has become imperative. Several routing protocols have been proposed in the literature for WSNs. Most of these protocols assume static nodes and sinks to collect data from network fields. However, they may be highly movable, and recent advances show that mobile sensors in WSNs have a promising performance. Therefore, this paper surveys the state of the art on routing protocols related to WSNs and presents the security issues or problems associated with the current protocols as well as discusses the future trends...

2013

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been a subject of extensive research and have undergone explosive growth in the last few years. WSNs utilize collaborative measures such as data gathering, aggregation, processing, and management of sensing activities for enhanced performance. In order to communicate with the sink nodes, nodes having low power and limited communication range may have to traverse multi-hop. This requires neighbors' nodes to be used as relays. However, if the relay nodes are compromised or malicious, they may leak confidential information to unauthorized nodes in the WSN. Moreover, in many WSN applications, the deployment of sensor nodes is carried out in an ad-hoc fashion without careful examination. In such networks it is desirable to ensure the source to sink privacy and maximize the lifetime of the network, by finding secure energy-efficient route discovery and forwarding mechanisms. Careful management is also required, as processing required for secure routing and communication is distributed over multiple nodes. An important consideration in this regard is energy-aware secure routing, which is significant in ensuring smooth operation of WSNs. As, these networks deal in sensitive data and are vulnerable to attack, it is important to make them secure against various types of threats. However, resource constraints could make the design, deployment and management of large WSNs a challenging proposition. The purpose of this paper is to highlight routing based security threats, provide a detailed assessment of existing solutions and present a Trust-based Energy Efficient Secure Routing Protocol (TEESR). The paper also highlights future research directions in of secure routing in multi-hop WSNs.

ABSTRACT In wireless sensor network there are various possible security threats encountered during data delivery, among the various possible threats like information security, node failure, etc. we are presenting this paper in order to conquer the ‘blackholes’ that are formed due to compromised-node (CN) and denial-of-service (DoS) by using some routing mechanisms approach. The existing multi-path routing approaches are vulnerable to such attacks, mainly due to their deterministic nature. Compromised-node and denial-of-service are two key attacks in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We have developed a structure that generates randomized routes. Under this design the routes taken by the “shares” of different packets change over time to time increasing the probability of randomness of paths to be selected for transferring the data. Hence, even though adversary or offender comes to know about the routing algorithm still it cannot pinpoint the routes in where each packet is roam randomly. Apart from randomness, the routes that are generated by these mechanisms are energy efficient as well as dispersive which ultimately make them capable of circumventing the blackholes at less energy cost. Extensive frameworks are conducted to verify the validity of our mechanisms.

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2018

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), considered as one of the successfully distributed applications that are currently used to acquire knowledge and collect information from the wirelessly devices seamlessly. The distinctive architecture of WSNs contributed to deploy it in an extensive range of modern industrial applications such as surveillance, monitoring, predicted, and automated control systems which can help in bridging the divide between user requirements and technologies. Moreover, WSNs face several challenges such as Topology control, Robustness, Placement, Power consuming, Scalability, Reliability, Resource Utilization, QoS, Data availability and Security. The main objective of this paper can be classified into two parts; the first one is to illustrate WSNs architecture, applications, challenges, and recent research directions. The second one is highlighting on routing and security design issues, security threats, countermeasures against network layer attacks to achieve secure routing, as the efficiency of the communication process is mainly based on determining the best path between nodes. We also highlight the advantages and performance issues of each secure routing technique. At the end of this paper the possible future research areas are concluded.

Wireless mesh network represent a solution to provide wireless connectivity. There are number of assaults on remote sensor systems like dark gap attack, sink gapa attack, Sybil attack, selective sending and so on. In this paper we will focus on particular sending assault. Particular Forwarding Attack is one among the numerous security dangers in remote sensor systems which can debase arrange execution. A foe on the transmission way specifically drop parcel. The enemy same time exchange the bundle, while in few events it drops the parcel. It is difficult to recognize this kind of assault since the bundle misfortune might be because of inconsistent remote correspondence. The proposed plan depends on trust estimation of every hub. Amid information transmission a hub chooses a downstream hub that has most astounding trust esteem, which is refreshed progressively in light of the quantity of bundles a hub has sent and dropped. We contrasted our plan and existing plan and found that the bundle misfortune in the proposed plan is a great deal not as much as the current plan. A. Introduction [1].WMNs are not built on a fixed infrastructure. Instead of this, hosts rely on each other to keep the connection. WMNs provide low-cost broadband internet access, wireless LAN coverage and network connection to fixed or mobile hosts for both network operators and users. The reason of preferring WMNs is easy, fast and deployment of the technology [2 A WMN comprises of work switches and work customers [3]. Work switches are settled. They have a remote foundation and work with alternate systems to give a multi-bounce web get to benefit for work customers. Then again, work customers can interface with system over both work switches and different customers. In these systems, because of substantial number of hubs, working through a few issues like security, adaptability and reasonability is required. In this manner, new uses of WMNs make mystery and security instruments are necessities [4].each sensor hub comprises of a radio transceiver for correspondence reason, smaller scale controller for preparing capacities, a sensor for detecting or observing and battery for giving vitality. A portion of the mainstream utilizations of sensor system are territory observing, condition monitoring(such as contamination checking), modern and machine wellbeing observing, squander water observing and military surveillance.[5].Security is vital for remote sensor systems sent in unfriendly situations. Giving security answers for these systems is difficult because of its characteristics, for example, modest in nature and limitations in assets. One of the assaults in WSN, is Selective Forwarding assault. Cao in this paper to proposed a scheme of secure data transmission which can forward the data safely, and detect the selective forwarding attack judge the trust value of each node to select a secure path for message forwarding and then use the watermark technology to detect the malicious nodes which are suspected to launch selective forwarding attack .When such an attack is detected, detection mode starts. The malicious node can be detected and addressed. Watermark technique is used to protect the data transmission safely. B. Chemas This paper is presented by B. Xiao, B. Yu and C. Gao [4proposed a multi jump affirmation plot for recognizing particular sending assaults. The between intervene hubs are in charge of recognizing the trouble making of the hubs. C. A Polynomial-Based Countermeasure to Selective Forwarding Attacks in Sensor Networks Xie Lei et al [14] have proposed a polynomial demonstrating based countermeasure against specific sending assault and a security plot utilizing excess information to endure the loss of basic occasion messages. The essential thought is to part the detecting

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2013

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted intensive interest from both academia and industry due to their wide application in civil and military scenarios. Recently, there is a great interest related to routing process in WSNs. Security aspects in routing protocols have not been given enough attention, since most of the routing protocols in WSNs have not been designed with security requirements in mind. This paper surveys the current challenges of WSN. It will focus on the attempts of building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based routing protocols in WSNs. This paper also identifies the WSN security trends and threats. The paper also addresses some examples of how to use artificial intelligence in the routing algorithms and shows the advantages and the drawbacks of each. A proposed framework also has been introduced. Finally, the future directions of WSNs have been declared.

2013

The collections of large number of sensor nodes are called wireless sensor networks. It is one of the domineering technologies in near future and also poses the unique challenges for the researchers to related field. Sensor networks are tiny nodes with sensing, computation capability. The fault tolerance, high sensing fidelity, flexibility and rapid deployment are some of the characteristic of sensor network which make it exiting in the field of remote sensing. Though there is another side too. In a very large scale sensor network individual sensors are subject to security compromise. Attacker can overhear the messages sent by another sensor node due to broadcast nature of communication. With increasing requirement of WSN in the areas of military and other areas, the security threats also increases. However the open nature of the wireless communication channels, the lack of infrastructure, the fast deployment practices, and the hostile environments where they may be deployed, make them vulnerable to a wide range of security attacks. The key issues in WSN are security, energy consumption and proper communication .In this paper we surveyed all the possible security attacks and all the geographical routing protocols in WSN .Some possible security attacks in wireless sensor network are Sink hole attack, Sybil attack, selective forwarding attack, wormhole attack and hello flood attack. This paper presents a thorough review of all the routing protocols as well as all these attacks which are given above in WSN.

Lecture Notes on Software Engineering, 2015

Since routing is a fundamental operation in all types of networks, ensuring routing security is a necessary requirement to guarantee the success of routing operation. Securing routing task gets more challenging as the target network lacks an infrastructure-based routing operation. This infrastructure-less nature that invites a multihop routing operation is one of the main features of wireless sensor networks that raises the importance of secure routing problem in these networks. Moreover, the risky environment, application criticality, and resources limitations and scarcity exhibited by wireless sensor networks make the task of secure routing much more challenging. All these factors motivate researchers to find novel solutions and approaches that would be different from the usual approaches adopted in other types of networks. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive treatment of the routing security problem in wireless sensor networks. The discussion flow of the problem in this chapter begins with an overview on wireless sensor networks that focuses on routing aspects to indicate the special characteristics of wireless sensor networks from routing perspective. The chapter then introduces the problem of secure routing in wireless sensor networks and illustrates how crucial the problem is to different networking aspects. This is followed by a detailed analysis of routing threats and attacks that are more specific to routing operation in wireless sensor networks. A research-guiding approach is then presented to the reader that analyzes and criticizes different techniques and solution directions for the secure routing problem in wireless sensor network. This is supported by state-of-the-art and familiar examples from the literature. The chapter finally concludes with a summary and future research directions in this field.