Efficient Detection of Routing Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Zahariadis, Theodore ; Trakadas, Panagiotis ; Maniatis, Sotiris ; Karkazis, Panagiotis ; Leligou, Helen C. ; Voliotis, Stamatis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technol. Educ. Inst. of Chalkis, Psahna Evias, Greece

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A lot of effort has been spent in securing the routing procedure in wireless sensor network (WSNs) since this is accomplished in a cooperative way and is vital for the communication of the sensors with the base station which collects the sensed data. The communication over wireless links in combination with the ad hoc organization introduces vulnerabilities. Each node monitors the behaviour of its neighbours in order to check whether they behave maliciously or not. Nodes with low trustworthiness are then avoided during routing decisions which are based on location and trust information. The efficiency of the proposed approach in defending against black-hole, grey-hole and integrity attacks is evaluated using computer simulations.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; security of data; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; ad hoc organization; computer simulations; routing attacks detection; routing decisions; sensor communication; trust information; wireless links; wireless sensor networks; Base stations; Communication system security; Costs; Data security; Educational technology; Electronic mail; Information security; Power system security; Routing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 2009. IWSSIP 2009. 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chalkida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4530-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4530-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWSSIP.2009.5367775

Filename

5367775