07-02-2013, 01:08 PM
Catching Packet Droppers and Modifiers in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Abstract
Packet dropping and modification are common attacks that can be launched by an adversary to disrupt communication in wireless multi hop sensor networks. Many schemes have been proposed to mitigate or tolerate such attacks, but very few can effectively and efficiently identify the intruders. To address this problem, we propose a simple yet effective scheme, which can identify misbehaving forwarders that drop or modify packets. Extensive analysis and simulations have been conducted to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the scheme.
Existing System:
Existing counter measures aim to filter modified messages en-route within a certain number of hops. These counter measures can tolerate or mitigate the packet dropping and modification attacks, but the intruders are still there and can continue attacking the network without being caught.
In existing scheme, modified packets should not be filtered out en route because they should be used as evidence to infer packet modifiers; hence, it cannot be used together with existing packet filtering schemes.
Proposed System:
In this project, we propose a simple effective scheme to catch both packet droppers and modifiers. In this scheme, a routing tree rooted at the sink is first established. When sensor data are transmitted along the tree structure toward the sink, each packet sender or forwarder adds a small number of extra bits, which is called packet marks, to the packet.
The sink can figure out the dropping ratio associated with every sensor node, and then runs our proposed node categorization algorithm to identify nodes that are droppers/modifiers for sure or are suspicious droppers/modifiers.
Specifically, based on the packet marks, the sink can figure out the dropping ratio associated with every sensor node, and then runs our proposed node categorization algorithm to identify nodes that are droppers/modifiers for sure or are suspicious droppers/modifiers.
As the information of node behaviors has been accumulated, the sink periodically runs our proposed heuristic ranking algorithms to identify most likely bad nodes from suspiciously bad nodes. This way, most of the bad nodes can be gradually identified with small false positive.