Robust data aggregation, encryption and data transfer in UWSNs

Khan, Gulista; Gola, Kamal Kumar; Rathore, Rahul

doi:10.1109/ngct.2015.7375150

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“…• Blackhole: A malicious node attempts to impersonate a destination node or forge route reply messages sent to the source node, and discards packets to ensure that they do not get to the destination. 21,33,34 This is a DoS attack. • Spoofing: A malicious node pretends to be another node by using a fake MAC address or gaining illegal access to facilitate further attacks.…”

Section: Security Attacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Security challenges of Internet of Underwater Things: A systematic literature review

Yisa

Dargahi

Belguith

et al. 2020

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Water covers approximately 71% of the earth surface, yet much of the underwater world remains unexplored due to technology limitations. Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is a network of underwater objects that enables monitoring subsea environment remotely. Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is the main enabling technology for IoUT. UWSNs are characterised by the limitations of the underlying acoustic communication medium, high energy consumption, lack of hardware resources to implement computationally intensive tasks and dynamic network topology due to node mobility. These characteristics render UNWSNs vulnerable to different attacks, such as Wormhole, Sybil, flooding, jamming, spoofing, and Denial of Service attacks. This article reviews peer-reviewed literature that addresses the security challenges and attacks on UWSNs as well as possible mitigative solutions. Findings show that the biggest contributing factors to security threats in UWSNs are the limited energy supply, the limited communication medium and the harsh underwater communication conditions. Researchers in this field agree that the security measures of terrestrial wireless sensor networks are not directly applicable to UWSNs due to the unique nature of the underwater environment where resource management becomes a significant challenge. This article also outlines future research directions on security and privacy challenges of IoUT and UWSN.

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Section: Security Attacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It perceives the parameters of neighbor nodes and makes a decision to identify abnormal nodes based on DST. Khan et al 34 discuss UWSN security threats and propose an algorithm for data aggregation, encryption, and transfer. Li et al 35 propose an authentication scheme to detect spoofing attacks in UWSN.…”

Section: Attack Detection and Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security challenges of Internet of Underwater Things: A systematic literature review

Yisa

Dargahi

Belguith

et al. 2020

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“…iv) GCM has been designed to support message authentication in one pass. A transfer procedure to encrypt/decrypt the aggregated data in UWSNs is also discussed in [144] to provide security for a tree topology UWAN.…”

Section: B a Security Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

On Securing Underwater Acoustic Networks: A Survey

Jiang

2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Underwater acoustic networks (UWANs) are often deployed in unattended and untransparent or even hostile environments and face many security threats, while many applications based on UWANs require secure communication, such as costal defense, submarine communication and harbor security. Peculiar features of UWANs such as very constrained resources pose big challenges in defending UWANs against security threats, and many research results are published to address these issues along with several brief surveys available in the literature. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey on UWAN security by first discussing the fundamental of network security in general and the main UWAN security threats faced by the physical layer to the transport layer. Then the paper reviews countermeasure schemes against the typical UWAN security threats, securing UWAN protocols and cryptographic primitives designed for UWANs as well as UWAN security structures that address several security issues systematically. The research of UWAN security is still in an early stage, and the paper discusses several important issues necessarily for further studies at the end.

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