A Leader Based Monitoring Approach for Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Security is one of an important factor to be considered seriously in wireless sensor networks. In WSN, in many ways intrusion may occur, in the past decades there is no perfect IDS, without any wasting of resources like time, energy, cost and number of physical items. The main objective is to ensure the security and improve the quality of network by applying a Leader based intrusion detection system in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Here, we are focusing on the attack known as sinkhole attack which is considered as the biggest threat in wireless sensor network which spoils the complete communication and a data loss between a pair of nodes as source node and a destination node. In order to provide a complete solution to detect and avoid sinkhole attack a Leader Based Intrusion Detection System (LBIDS) is proposed. In this approach a leader is elected for each group nodes within the network, region wise and it do compares and calculates the behavior of every node, logically executes our detection module and monitors each node behaviour within the cluster for any sinkhole attack to occur. When a node gets detected as a compromised node, it informs that nodes status to the other leader within the WSN, so all the leaders in the network knows about the sink hole node information and the leaders stop communication with sinkhole Node.

An Intrusion Prevention Technology Based on Dynamic Random Password Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…To detect and prevent malicious behaviors in wireless sensor networks, an intrusion detection system based on leader was proposed in [12], and the name of this system is Leader Based Intrusion Detection System (LBIDS). A leader is selected from a group of nodes in the network and monitors these nodes.…”

Intrusion Detection Algorithm for Mitigating Sinkhole Attack on LEACH Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…If the values are different, then the BS alerts the sensor nodes about the presence of sinkhole node. The authors in [23] propose centralized monitoring approach to detect the sinkhole node in the WSN. The monitoring node (or leader node) is randomly selected from the group of sensor nodes.…”

“…The purpose of routing attack is to create a serious threat to the sensor network. The sinkhole is one of the most susceptible threats to the sensor network as referred to in [9,11,21,23,[25][26][27]. It can be extended further with the attacks like selective forwarding, black hole, and HELLO flood to devastate the network transmission [31][32][33].…”