ABSTRACT

Physical attack detection in sensor network:

With the rise in the use of wireless systems and networks, the use of wireless sensor networks as also increased. With this rapid increment in the use of wireless sensor networks, the security issues of the networks have become of great concern. While it is possible to have many kinds of attacks, similar to the attacks in traditional networks, on sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks, there is one more attack which had not been considered as a threat in traditional networks that is the Physical attack on the sensor nodes. Our task is to develop an efficient algorithm that detects Physical attacks as soon as possible without any serious impact on the network performance. We study the defense of sensor networks against Search-based Physical Attacks. We define search based physical attacks as those, where an attacker detects sensors using signal detecting equipment and then physically destroys the detected sensors. In this paper, we propose a Sacrificial Node-assisted approach to defend against search-based physical attacks. The core principle of our defense is to trade short term local coverage for long term global coverage through the sacrificial node-assisted attack notification and states switching of sensors. The performance metric we use is Accumulative Coverage (AC), which effectively captures coverage and lifetime of the sensor networks to measure sensor network performance. Our simulation results clearly demonstrate that our defense approach can significantly decrease losses in AC even under intense search based physical attacks

Submitted by, Ramkrishna B. Tayde