Secure Z-MAC Protocol as a Proposed Solution for Improving Security in WSNs

Almansoori, Mona Nasser; Elshamy, Ahmad; Mustafa, Ahmad Abdel Muttalib

doi:10.3390/info13030105

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“…Almansoori et al [ 33 ] developed Secure Zebra MAC (SZ-MAC) models using elliptic curve cryptography techniques and hob-based intrusion analysis techniques. In this work, an elliptic curve cryptography engine was implemented with random key management functions for securing wireless channels.…”

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Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model with Secure MAC Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Rajasoundaran

Maheswar

Muthuramalingam

et al. 2022

Sensors

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The Wireless Medium Access Control (WMAC) protocol functions by handling various data frames in order to forward them to neighbor sensor nodes. Under this circumstance, WMAC policies need secure data communication rules and intrusion detection procedures to safeguard the data from attackers. The existing secure Medium Access Control (MAC) policies provide expected and predictable practices against channel attackers. These security policies can be easily breached by any intelligent attacks or malicious actions. The proposed Wireless Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model (WIHFM) newly implements distributed honeypot-based security mechanisms in each sensor node to act reactively against various attackers. The proposed WIHFM creates an optimal Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) channel model, Wireless Interleaved Honeypot Frames (WIHFs), secure hash-based random frame-interleaving principles, node-centric honeypot engines, and channel-covering techniques. Compared to various existing MAC security policies, the proposed model transforms unpredictable IHFs into legitimate frame sequences against channel attackers. Additionally, introducing WIHFs is a new-fangled approach for distributed WSNs. The successful development of the proposed WIHFM ensures resilient security standards and neighbor-based intrusion alert procedures for protecting MAC frames. Particularly, the proposed wireless honeypot methodology creates a novel idea of using honeypot frame traps against open wireless channel attacks. The development of a novel wireless honeypot traps deals with various challenges such as distributed honeypot management principles (node-centric honeypot, secretly interleaved-framing principles, and interleaving/de-interleaving procedures), dynamic network backbone management principles (On Demand Acyclic Connectivity model), and distributed attack isolation policies. This effort provides an effective wireless attack-trapping solution in dynamic WSNs. The simulation results show the advantage of the proposed WIHFM over the existing techniques such as Secure Zebra MAC (SZ-MAC), Blockchain-Assisted Secure-Routing Mechanism (BASR), and the Trust-Based Node Evaluation (TBNE) procedure. The experimental section confirms the proposed model attains a 10% to 14% superior performance compared to the existing techniques.

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Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model with Secure MAC Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Rajasoundaran

Maheswar

Muthuramalingam

et al. 2022

Sensors

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“…Furthermore, these keys take time for key generation, registering and distributing, which is mostly associated with most modern used cryptographic keys such as the RSA and ECDH [13]. Wireless sensors and their data must be secured using a lightweight key exchange method to enable real-time data access [16]. Many cryptography protocols have been designed using symmetric and asymmetric algorithms.…”

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Implication of Lightweight and Robust Hash Function to Support Key Exchange in Health Sensor Networks

Al-Zubaidie

2023

Symmetry

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Internet of Things (IoT) applications are critical for the fast delivery of health information/data in different environments. The wireless sensor network (WSN) can be used within IoT applications to collect this information in the electronic-health sector. However, the essential drawback of WSN and health applications is ensuring that patient and healthcare provider data/information is protected. In addition, exchanging keys and joining the network is the first/most important line of defense to protect health information. Amid all this, the previous search has introduced many key exchange protocols but still suffers from security and performance issues for WSNs and user devices. In this research, we propose a new protocol for exchanging keys and joining the network using security algorithms that are Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) and QUARK hash (qh). We focused on applying lightweight and high-security techniques to reduce the burden on WSN resources, by adopting a solid methodological approach to support security first and performance second. The security analysis is simulated with the Scyther tool, and the results indicate that our protocol is able to block key exchange attacks known in the existing research. Furthermore, we carried out a comparison with the results of the recent search in terms of performance, our protocol provides better performance results than the results of the existing search.

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A MAC Layer Energy Drain Attack Analysis in WSN

Serianni

Palmieri

2022

2022 30th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR)

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Secure Z-MAC Protocol as a Proposed Solution for Improving Security in WSNs

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model with Secure MAC Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model with Secure MAC Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Implication of Lightweight and Robust Hash Function to Support Key Exchange in Health Sensor Networks

A MAC Layer Energy Drain Attack Analysis in WSN

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