Security in wireless sensor networks: a survey of attacks and countermeasures

Martins, David; Guyennet, Hervé

doi:10.1504/ijssc.2011.040341

Cited by 27 publications

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“…For securing WSNs, it is necessary to address the potential attacks on such networks. These can be classified as either passive attacks or active ones [41,42]. It is known that routing protocols in sensor networks are simpler and more vulnerable to attacks than the other two types of wireless networks: ad-hoc and cellular.…”

Section: Security In Wsnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Virtual Laboratory to Practice Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case Study on Energy Efficient and Safe Weighted Clustering Algorithm

2015

J Inf Process Syst

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In this paper, we present a virtual laboratory platform (VLP) baptized Mercury allowing students to make practical work (PW) on different aspects of mobile wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Our choice of WSNs is motivated mainly by the use of real experiments needed in most courses about WSNs. These experiments require an expensive investment and a lot of nodes in the classroom. To illustrate our study, we propose a course related to energy efficient and safe weighted clustering algorithm. This algorithm which is coupled with suitable routing protocols, aims to maintain stable clustering structure, to prevent most routing attacks on sensor networks, to guaranty energy saving in order to extend the lifespan of the network. It also offers a better performance in terms of the number of re-affiliations. The platform presented here aims at showing the feasibility, the flexibility and the reduced cost of such a realization. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithms that contribute to the familiarization of the learners in the field of WSNs.

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Section: Security In Wsnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Virtual Laboratory to Practice Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case Study on Energy Efficient and Safe Weighted Clustering Algorithm

2015

J Inf Process Syst

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“…The wireless nature and inherent features of WSNs make them vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks by misbehaving nodes. For securing WSNs, it is necessary to address the potential attacks on such networks; which can be classified as either passive attack or active attack . Figure shows a classification of attacks on WSNs.…”

Section: Security In Wireless Sensor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed monitoring for misbehaviour detection in wireless sensor networks

Benahmed¹,

Merabti²,

Haffaf

2012

Security Comm Networks

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) often consist of tiny devices and offer a variety of potential means to monitor the environment. However, WSNs are vulnerable to several types of attack because of their use in critical applications, their deployment in open and unprotected environments and their limited system resources. Therefore, security design is an important aspect of WSNs. In this work, we focus on detecting misbehaving nodes in WSNs. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to present a complete and formal study on finding optimised monitor nodes and combining the organisation of the network with monitoring for misbehaviour detection in WSNs. The main idea of this work is to propose simple and efficient distributed monitoring algorithm capable of detecting misbehaviours based on a clustered architecture, where the cluster head is elected according to a new set of metrics. These new election metrics are based on a multiple-criteria decision approach in order to monitor the health status of cluster members and detect misbehaviour. Our proposed strategy ensures a good selection of the nodes responsible for monitoring, reduces energy consumption during the monitoring process-effectively reducing the amount of security information that flows through the network-and reduces latency. The efficiency of our method is evaluated through simulation experiments.

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“…The wireless networks and devices are becoming increasingly popular and they provide users access to information and communication anytime and anywhere [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) [12] are a subclass of wireless networks that are attracting a lot of research attention recently.…”

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confidence: 99%