Title: An efficient detection scheme of node replication attacks for wireless sensor networks

Authors: Zhiming Zhang; Fuying Wu; Changgen Jiang; Jiangang Deng

Addresses: School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China ' School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China ' School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China ' Science and Technology Research Place, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China

Abstract: In many applications, wireless sensor networks are deployed in open environment; the sensor nodes are vulnerable to be captured by the adversary, the adversary can replicate captured sensors and deploy them in the network again, and these replicated nodes can be used to launch many attacks. Thus, it is very necessary to design an efficient detection method of replicated nodes to locate replicated nodes and remove them from the network. In this paper, using the orthogonal code, a tree-based detection scheme of node replication attack (TDS) is proposed. Comparing with most existing detection schemes, the TDS does not need the support of witnesses, and does not have the problem of node location exposed. The security analysis shows that the TDS can against the replicated nodes do not participate in detection procedures and drop the detection message. Performance analysis and simulations demonstrate that the TDS is more efficient than existing schemes.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; node replication attacks; replicated node detection; orthogonal code; network security; tree-based detection; performance evaluation; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2015.072440

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2015 Vol.10 No.4, pp.228 - 238

Received: 25 Aug 2014
Accepted: 24 Mar 2015
Published online: 13 Oct 2015 *

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