A secure network coding-enabled approach for a confidential cluster-based routing in wireless sensor networks

Rhim, Hana; Abassi, Ryma; Tamine, Karim; Sauveron, Damien; Guemara, Sihem

doi:10.1145/3341105.3373969

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“…This paper proposes a secure protocol for WSNs that defends against the misbehavior of selfish and pollution attacker nodes in the network. It extends our previous work [15], which ensured confidentiality of exchanges in clustered WSNs using an optimized (NC) technique. This extension provides a solution for preventing an attack on network avail-ability as well as integrity.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 63%

“…The NC technique exists in a range of types that are further clarified and detailed in [23]. We have proposed, in a previous study, a secure network coding-enabled approach for a confidential cluster-based routing in wireless sensor networks [15], called SNCR. Without the need to use expensive traditional cryptographic-based methods, it offers an optimized version of NC methodology to overcome eavesdropping attacks on transmitted data.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, it considers the case where the CH nodes are malicious. Moreover, our solution takes advantage of the NC technique used in [15] to guarantee data confidentiality and optimizes it by achieving data coding only at source nodes. Hence, it minimizes overheads and energy depletion in the network.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The proposed solution guarantees that with a coalition of MNs of a size in the range of a threshold K = p − t − 1, the adversary fails to stop the successful reception of any message from a source node at the BS. The proposed solution is also protected against eavesdropping attacks as in [15]. These occur when an adversary has unauthorized access to useful data transmitted by any link in the network.…”

Section: Threat Model and Security Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also proposes attack detection and a punishment mechanism for malicious nodes causing the DoS attack or the pollution attack. The solution takes advantage of the matrix format of keys specific to each sensor node used for confidential communication in [15] and implements a new scheme of NC by adding data redundancy. It converts a file/message into a set of p pieces in such a way that the file/message can be reconstructed from any predefined subsets of t out of p pieces.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Secure Protocol against Selfish and Pollution Attacker Misbehavior in Clustered WSNs

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used for applications in numerous fields. One of the main challenges is the limited energy resources when designing secure routing in such networks. Hierarchical organization of nodes in the network can make efficient use of their resources. In this case, a subset of nodes, the cluster heads (CHs), is entrusted with transmitting messages from cluster nodes to the base station (BS). However, the existence of selfish or pollution attacker nodes in the network causes data transmission failure and damages the network availability and integrity. Mainly, when critical nodes like CH nodes misbehave by refusing to forward data to the BS, by modifying data in transit or by injecting polluted data, the whole network becomes defective. This paper presents a secure protocol against selfish and pollution attacker misbehavior in clustered WSNs, known as (SSP). It aims to thwart both selfish and pollution attacker misbehaviors, the former being a form of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. In addition, it maintains a level of confidentiality against eavesdroppers. Based on a random linear network coding (NC) technique, the protocol uses pre-loaded matrices within sensor nodes to conceive a larger number of new packets from a set of initial data packets, thus creating data redundancy. Then, it transmits them through separate paths to the BS. Furthermore, it detects misbehaving nodes among CHs and executes a punishment mechanism using a control counter. The security analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed solution is not only capable of preventing and detecting DoS attacks as well as pollution attacks, but can also maintain scalable and stable routing for large networks. The protocol means 100% of messages are successfully recovered and received at the BS when the percentage of lost packets is around 20%. Moreover, when the number of misbehaving nodes executing pollution attacks reaches a certain threshold, SSP scores a reception rate of correctly reconstructed messages equal to 100%. If the SSP protocol is not applied, the rate of reception of correctly reconstructed messages is reduced by 90% at the same case.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Threat Model and Security Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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