Wormhole-Free Routing and DoS Attack Defense in Wireless Mesh Networks

Akilarasu, Ganesan; Shalinie, S. Mercy

doi:10.1007/s11276-016-1240-0

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Authors in [30]- [32] presented useful solutions that use neighboring approach, however, their wormhole detection methods are not comprehensive and hard to implement. Another solution presented in [33] depends on the neighboring approach and requires extravagant overhead that likely results in several traffic problems such as congestion. Also, another mechanism suggested a solution in [34] to utilize a combination of energy, routes traffic rate, number of nodes and nodes trust to select the optimum path avoiding wormhole attackers; however, this algorithm would add overhead to the network.…”

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Centralized Routing Protocol for Detecting Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Ahutu

El-Ocla

2020

IEEE Access

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Nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are resource and energy-constrained because they are generally batteries powered and therefore have limited computational capability. Due to the less secure environment in WSN, some malicious nodes at one point can tunnel packets to another location to damage the network in terms of packets dropping and eavesdropping and this is a so-called wormhole attack. Many of the current protocols solve the wormhole attack problem in isolation from the node energy consumption. However, some other proposed solutions consider reducing the energy consumption to detect such attacks but still it is needed to probe better performance. In this paper, we present a lightweight multi-hop routing protocol for 802.15.4 WSN that aims to minimize the energy consumption and also to detect the wormhole attacks. Simulation results prove that our MAC Centralized Routing Protocol (MCRP) outperforms other existing similar protocols.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Centralized Routing Protocol for Detecting Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Ahutu

El-Ocla

2020

IEEE Access

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“…In [53], the authors have proposed a monitoring technique for wormhole-free routing and DoS attack defense in wireless mesh networks. In the beginning, all nodes keep track of their neighbors' receivers and senders' information based on the finite state model.…”

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RTS: A Robust and Trusted Scheme for IoT-Based Mobile Wireless Mesh Networks

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Wireless mesh networks consist of various mesh clients that are organized in an unfixed infrastructure and packets are forwarded using a multi-hop model. Routing protocols have a significant impact on mesh networks because their performance has a crucial effect on nodes connectivity and throughput. Recently, the integration of mesh clients with the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained significant importance to connect billions of machines and achieve fast coverage with minimum network cost. However, if mesh clients are mobile, then data routing via intermediate nodes gives a noteworthy effect on the network performance and latency. Furthermore, over the Internet, a malicious node may be a part of the mesh network and as a result, the sending information can be manipulated and compromised. Therefore, this research article aims to propose a robust and trusted scheme (RTS) for IoT-based mobile mesh networks to provide reliable routing, data confidentiality, and integrity. Firstly, the proposed scheme presents a robust data routing among mobile mesh clients, routers and gateway devices based on the network parameters and measurement of wireless channels. Moreover, the wireless channels between mesh devices are formulated based on the efficacy of link costs for data dissemination. Besides, the location of mobile mesh clients is determined by computing the distance vector at a regular time interval. Secondly, a secure and authentic data protection technique is proposed using public-private key cryptography, which aims to increase the protection of mesh clients with minimal overhead. The competence of the proposed scheme is significantly improved with respect to network throughput by an average of 14%, packet loss rate by an average of 37%, latency rate by an average of 12%, computational overhead by an average of 34%, and energy efficiency by an average of 20% as compared to other works. INDEX TERMS Wireless mesh network, the Internet of Things, data security, gateways, routing protocol.

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“…Lu et al [39] proposed the method that first attempt toward creating a graph theoretical approach, called Worm Planar, who just utilizes localized connectivity information and is capable of capturing the global require symptoms of wormholes directly in the wireless networks. Akilarasu and Shalinie [40] showed an approach for wormhole detection based on Finite State Machine (FSM) and priority mechanism. Jamali and Fotohi [41] proposed an improvement over AODV routing protocol called defending against wormhole attack (DAWA) employs the fuzzy logic system and artificial immune system to defend against wormhole attacks.…”

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CREDND: A Novel Secure Neighbor Discovery Algorithm for Wormhole Attack

Luo

Chen

et al. 2019

IEEE Access

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As nodes' characteristics that they are self-governed and resource-limited, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face potential threats due to various attacks, among which the most threatening attack is wormhole attack. Wormhole attack severely imperils WSNs and is difficult to be detected, for it causes incorrect routing by private tunnels and damages to WSNs in terms of data leakage, data dropping, and delayed delivery. However, the existing solutions are based on additional hardware, incur high communication overhead, or fail to give consideration to all types of wormholes. In this paper, we propose CREDND, a protocol for creating a Credible Neighbor Discovery against wormholes in WSN, which can detect not only external wormholes through the hop difference between the own exclusive neighbors but also internal wormholes through enabling the common neighbor nodes as witnesses to monitor whether the authentication packets are forwarded by malicious nodes. CREDND is a simple, localized protocol and needs no special hardware, localization, or synchronization, but it improves the ability of wormhole defense. The simulation results are provided, showing that CREDND outperforms in wormhole detection than other same types of solutions. INDEX TERMS Secure neighborhood, neighbor discovery, network security, wireless sensor networks, wormhole attack.

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Wormhole-Free Routing and DoS Attack Defense in Wireless Mesh Networks

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

Centralized Routing Protocol for Detecting Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Centralized Routing Protocol for Detecting Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

RTS: A Robust and Trusted Scheme for IoT-Based Mobile Wireless Mesh Networks

CREDND: A Novel Secure Neighbor Discovery Algorithm for Wormhole Attack

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