Node clone detection using a stable overlay network

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks consist of number of sensor nodes widely distributed in particular region to communicate and sharing the environmental information and also these data’s are stored in central location for further data prediction. Such nodes are susceptible to cloning attack where the adversary captures a node, replicates with the same identity as that of the captured node and deploys the clone back into the network, causing severe harm to the network. Hence to thwart such attacks, a distributed detection protocol is used with initiator-observer-inspector roles assigned randomly for the nodes to witness the clone and thereby broadcast the evidence through a balanced overlay network. Use of such balanced network provides high security level and reduces the communication cost when compared to other overlay networks with a reasonably less storage consumption.

Survey on data aggregation based security attacks in wireless sensor network

“…The nodes that are compromised include those nodes whose identity has been stolen by malicious nodes [7]. Thus, the malicious nodes try to be a part of the network with this stolen identity and disrupt the functions in the network [8]. The malicious nodes also overwhelm the normal sensor nodes with fake packets so that the node's memory is full and the valid packets also gets dropped.…”