Secure media access control (MAC) in wireless sensor networks: intrusion detections and countermeasures

Author

Ren, Qingchun ; Liang, Qilian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., Arlington, TX, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3025

Abstract

Current works on MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks(WSN) mainly concentrate on optimizing the efficiency and fairness of common channel access. We propose a secure MAC protocol improve the security of WSN, which is based on the RTS(request to send)/CTS(clear to send) mechanism. Our major contributions include: analysis of the security problems of RTS/CTS based MAC protocols; design of the intrusion detection method using soft decision theory; discussion of the intrusion strategies and attack and defense simulation models.

Keywords

access protocols; decision theory; telecommunication channels; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; RTS/CTS mechanism; common channel access; countermeasure; intrusion detection; request to send/clear to send mechanism; secure media access control; soft decision theory; wireless sensor network; Access protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Communication system security; Computer crime; Intelligent networks; Intrusion detection; Media Access Protocol; Routing; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2004. PIMRC 2004. 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8523-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2004.1368875

Filename

1368875