Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wormhole attack is a severe attack that can be easily launched by a pair of external attackers in hostile wireless sensor networks. In the wormhole attack, an attacker sniffs packets at one point in the network, and tunnels them through the wormhole link to the other attacker at another point of the...
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2014-03-01
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| author | Honglong Chen Wendong Chen Zhibo Wang Zhi Wang Yanjun Li |
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| description | Wormhole attack is a severe attack that can be easily launched by a pair of external attackers in hostile wireless sensor networks. In the wormhole attack, an attacker sniffs packets at one point in the network, and tunnels them through the wormhole link to the other attacker at another point of the network, which broadcasts them to its neighbors. Such kind of procedure can easily deteriorate the normal functionality of the networks. In this paper, we propose a novel wormhole attackers detection and positioning scheme based on mobile beacon, which can not only detect the existence of wormhole attacks, but also accurately localize the attackers for the system to eliminate them out of the network. The main idea is to detect whether the communication between the mobile beacon and each of the static beacons violates the communication properties and then the attacker can be estimated as the center of its communication area by determining the intersection point of the chords’ perpendicular bisector. The simulation results illustrate that our proposed scheme can obtain a high wormhole attack detection probability as well as a high attackers positioning accuracy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-55bd7393fac44d2bb496c84b473933be2023-09-02T23:53:23ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772014-03-011010.1155/2014/910242910242Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor NetworksHonglong Chen0Wendong Chen1Zhibo Wang2Zhi Wang3Yanjun Li4 Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37934, USA State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, ChinaWormhole attack is a severe attack that can be easily launched by a pair of external attackers in hostile wireless sensor networks. In the wormhole attack, an attacker sniffs packets at one point in the network, and tunnels them through the wormhole link to the other attacker at another point of the network, which broadcasts them to its neighbors. Such kind of procedure can easily deteriorate the normal functionality of the networks. In this paper, we propose a novel wormhole attackers detection and positioning scheme based on mobile beacon, which can not only detect the existence of wormhole attacks, but also accurately localize the attackers for the system to eliminate them out of the network. The main idea is to detect whether the communication between the mobile beacon and each of the static beacons violates the communication properties and then the attacker can be estimated as the center of its communication area by determining the intersection point of the chords’ perpendicular bisector. The simulation results illustrate that our proposed scheme can obtain a high wormhole attack detection probability as well as a high attackers positioning accuracy.https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/910242 |
| spellingShingle | Honglong Chen Wendong Chen Zhibo Wang Zhi Wang Yanjun Li Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_full | Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_fullStr | Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_short | Mobile Beacon Based Wormhole Attackers Detection and Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_sort | mobile beacon based wormhole attackers detection and positioning in wireless sensor networks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/910242 |
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