Distributed Actuation Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks: Implications and Countermeasures

Czarlinska, A.; Kundur, Deepa

doi:10.1109/dssns.2006.4

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“…Our framework is unique within existing, rule-based, security assessment strategies [16] [17] [18]. It enables the security quantification of both the WSN and the application to be performed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The lack of computation power in non-intelligent nodes become key constraints on open system implementation, since child sensor nodes are not designed to make crucial decisions. -Hybrid models: Like other networks, sensor networks are mobile, ad hoc and sometimes disparate hybrid models [16]. In these models, the trust domain among sensor nodes can be rare or highly complex to achieve.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Various factors cause these rule-based/ theoretical security assessment frameworks to fail, especially in WSNs. These factors include the complex security algorithms, higher-bit encryption, hard-coded communication protocols, open system architectures, hybrid network models, and network deployment strategies [15] [16] [17] [18]. Some of these are elaborated below.…”

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Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

Ashraf

Hashmani

Chowdhry

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2008 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The paper presents a ready-to-use security assessment framework for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The parameters in the proposed security assessment framework perform independent security assessment of WSNs and of their applications. Our proposed framework uses actual responses of the entities (such as nodes, communication link and network response) to assign numerical values for security assessment of WSNs. The method for calculating the optimal values for each security parameter of the framework is also discussed. Our proposed framework is designed to avoid unwanted impacts of the complexities of security algorithms, communication protocols and strong cryptography. Usually, the complexity of algorithms disguises the actual assessment of the WSN, but the independence of the proposed framework from these security-disguising objects makes this framework better than other assessment frameworks in terms of scalability.

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Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

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Hashmani

Chowdhry

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2008 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

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“…Some critical applications such as battle-field surveillance may experience both harsh and hostile conditions. Importantly, occasional errors caused by harsh or hostile elements may occur with vastly different frequency than wireless transmission errors [4]. Whereas coded wireless transmission and decoding might produce a bit error with probability between 10 −6 to 10 −9 , the erroneous reporting rate of a particular scalar-sensor is not as easy to ascertain.…”

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“…For instance, harsh environments of interest might include infrastructure in seismically active areas, or wildlife monitoring in remote rainforests [1], [2]. In hostile environments on the other hand, faulty sensor reporting may be caused by a malicious opponent engaged in false-packet injection, actuation of sensed-data or other sensor network attacks [4]. Some critical applications such as battle-field surveillance may experience both harsh and hostile conditions.…”

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Attack vs. failure detection in event-driven wireless visual sensor networks

Czarlinska

Kundur

2007

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia &Amp; Security - MM&Sec '07

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In event-driven wireless Visual Sensor Networks (wVSNs), video nodes have access to additional data from scalar-sensors such as temperature or motion. The scalar-data may be used locally by the nodes instead of (or in conjunction with) vision technologies to control the potentially energy-costly transmission and storage of video frames and must thus be reliable. In this work we focus on the detection of occasional errors in such scalar-data sensors under both the scenario of harsh environmental conditions, and the scenario of hostile conditions involving an attacker. In the hostile case, the attack statistics may not be known to the cluster-head performing the error detection. We hence propose the use of a count detector in conjunction with Nash equilibrium analysis for the hostile case. We compare the detection performance of the count detector in hostile conditions to the performance of the optimal Neyman-Pearson (NP ) detector which may be used under harsh conditions (scenario where the error statistics may be estimated). Through analysis and simulations we conclude that in this severe regime of attack with missing statistics, the count detector performs reasonably well compared with the optimal NP detector with significance for reliable event-driven wVSN.

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Towards characterizing the effectiveness of random mobility against actuation attacks

Czarlinska

Kundur

2007

Computer Communications

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Distributed Actuation Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks: Implications and Countermeasures

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

Design and analysis of the security assessment framework for achieving discrete security values in wireless sensor networks

Attack vs. failure detection in event-driven wireless visual sensor networks

Towards characterizing the effectiveness of random mobility against actuation attacks

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