Effects of Denial-of-Sleep Attacks on Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocols

Raymond, David; Marchany, Randy; Brownfield, M.I.; Midkiff, Scott F.

doi:10.1109/tvt.2008.921621

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“…David R. Raymond et al [13] classifies denial-of-sleep attacks on WSN MAC protocols. Secondly, it explores potential attacks from each attack classification, both modeling their impacts on sensor networks running four leading WSN MAC protocols and analyzing the efficiency of implementations of these attacks on these protocols.…”

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“…Thus to effectively increase life of individual sensor nodes and in turn the whole sensor network the battery charge carried by these nodes must be conserved . If we fail to stop the attack, the network lifetime can be reduced from months or years to days [13]. To prevent this attack we have to authenticate nodes which are going to change the sleep time of the nodes so only synchronization messages coming from authenticated nodes are accepted.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Conservation of Energy in Wireless Sensor Network by Preventing Denial of Sleep Attack

Naik

Shekokar

2015

Procedia Computer Science

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be used to monitor environments, and therefore have broad range of interesting applications. The applications which may use WSN can be of sensitive nature and therefore might require enhanced secured environment. As sensors are used to monitor sensitive areas therefore Security and energy efficiency is essential consideration when designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The Sensor nodes get their power from batteries. Since the sensor nodes are deployed in harsh environment they cannot be recharged. Due to unattended deployment and inability of recharging, the power consumption of the nodes should be optimal. To implement minimum power consumption Sensor networks periodically place nodes to sleep. This is achieved by using the media access control (MAC) protocols. These protocols are designed in such a way that they reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes by keeping the antenna in sleep mode as much as possible. This leads to power saving. The MAC protocols change the sleep time based on the type of communication required. However, malicious nodes can be introduced in the network and these attackers use their information about the MAC protocol, by manipulating the sleep time of the node, so that life time of the node reduces. This is called as Denial of sleep attack .This paper, addresses the Denial of sleep attack in WSN while at the same time proposing a scheme for authenticating the new nodes which try to change the sleep schedule of the nodes. Only transmissions from valid nodes are accepted. Our scheme uses zero knowledge protocol (ZKP) for verifying the authenticity of the sensor nodes which pass the sleep synchronization messages. Also to enhance security further the interlock protocol is used during key exchange. The paper presents a detailed analysis for various scenarios and also analyzes the performance while implementing this secure authentication.

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Conservation of Energy in Wireless Sensor Network by Preventing Denial of Sleep Attack

Naik

Shekokar

2015

Procedia Computer Science

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“…These attacks prevent nodes from in-going a low-power sleep cycle and drain their batteries more rapidly. It's only those attacks at medium access control (MAC) layer [15]., that are considered in the latest research on "denial of sleep". There source exhaustion at the MAC and transport layers [10,13], are also mentioned, but offers rate limiting and removal of insider intruders as potential solutions.…”

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“…This paper also considers the down fall of the routing protocols leading to lack in safety from vampire attacks as the node's energy is drained in the networks. Compared to the earlier -observed DoS, reduction of quality (RoQ), and routing infrastructure attacks, these attacks vary, as they work intentionally to disrupt the network completely, but they don't disrupt immediate availability.While a few attacks bound to be easy, and power-depleting and resource exhaustion attacks are described before [12,15,8], earlier effort are generally restricted to other stages of the protocol stack. These Vampire attacks are non-specific with respect to the protocols and are independent of the design properties and exploit protocol classes properties like distance-vector, link-state, source routing and geographic and beacon routing.…”

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Ensuring an early recognition and avoidance of the vampire attacks in WSN using routing loops

Deshmukh

Potgantwar

2015

2015 IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC)

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In sensing it's the ad-hoc sensor and data routing which is an important research direction. Security work is prioritized in this area and focusing primarily at medium access control or the routing levels on denial of communication. Attacks focusing on routing protocol layer are known as resource depletion attacks in this paper. This attack impacts by persistently disabling the network and causing the node's battery power drain drastically. There are protocols established which tends to protect from DOS attacks, however it isn't possible perfectly. Vampire attack is one such DOS attack. These Vampire attacks depends on various characteristics of well-known many classes of routing protocols as these are not specific to any particular protocol. These Vampire attacks can be easily executed using even a single malicious intruder, who sends simply protocol complaint message, these attacks are thus destructing and very hard to detect. In the nastiest condition, an individual attacker has the ability to enlarge the energy usage of the network by a factor of O(N), where N is the quantity of nodes in the network. A new proof-of-concept protocol is a method discussed to mitigate these kinds of attacks. This protocol limits the damage caused at the time of packet forwarding done by Vampires. To diminish the Vampire attacks using PLGP-a which identifies malicious attack, certain approaches have also been discussed.Index Terms-Wireless networks, vampire attack, routing protocols, sensor network, ad-hoc networks.

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“…A number of literatures [9][10][11][12][13] have studied DoS attacks on wireless sensor networks, e.g., Raymond and Midkiff [11] provide a survey of DoS attacksin sensor networks. However, the security schemes designed for sensor networks cannot be directly applied to IMDs, because IMDs have much less resources than typical sensor nodes.…”

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Defending Resource Depletion Attacks on Implantable Medical Devices

Hei

et al. 2010

2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010

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Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) have been widely used to treat chronic diseases such as cardiac arrhythmia and diabetes. Many IMDs are enabled with wireless communication capabilities and can communicate with an outside programmer/reader wirelessly. With the rapid growth of IMDs, IMD security becomes a critical issue since attacks on IMDs may directly harm the patient. Typical IMDs have very limited resource in terms of energy, computation and storage. In this research, we identify a new kind of attacks on IMDs -Resource Depletion (RD) attacks that could deplete IMD resources (e.g., battery power) quickly. The RD attacks could reduce the lifetime of an IMD from several years to a few weeks. The attacks can be easily launched but can not be defended by traditional cryptographic approaches. In this paper, we propose to utilize the patient's IMD access pattern and we design a novel Support Vector Machine (SVM) based scheme to address the RD attacks. Our SVM-based scheme is very effective in defending the RD attacks. Our experimental results show that the average detection rate of the SVM-based scheme is above 90%.

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Effects of Denial-of-Sleep Attacks on Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocols

Cited by 177 publications

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Conservation of Energy in Wireless Sensor Network by Preventing Denial of Sleep Attack

Conservation of Energy in Wireless Sensor Network by Preventing Denial of Sleep Attack

Ensuring an early recognition and avoidance of the vampire attacks in WSN using routing loops

Defending Resource Depletion Attacks on Implantable Medical Devices

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