An efficient countermeasure to the selective forwarding attack in wireless sensor networks

The selective forwarding attack is a serious threat in wireless sensor networks, especially in monitor systems. Malicious sensor nodes work like normal sensor nodes but selectively drop sensitive packets in selective forwarding attack. The dropped packets may contain some crucial information; hence,...

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Published inTENCON 2007 - 2007 IEEE Region 10 Conference pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Hung-Min Sun, Chien-Ming Chen, Ying-Chu Hsiao
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2007
Subjects
Base stations
Computer science
Computerized monitoring
Information security
Network topology
Routing
Scalability
Sensor systems
Sun
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:The selective forwarding attack is a serious threat in wireless sensor networks, especially in monitor systems. Malicious sensor nodes work like normal sensor nodes but selectively drop sensitive packets in selective forwarding attack. The dropped packets may contain some crucial information; hence, the loss of some packets may destroy the entire networks. In this paper, we first describe the existing scheme for defending against this attack. We show that the existing scheme has some drawbacks. Second, we utilize a multi-dataflow topologies (MDT) scheme to defend against this attack. Using the MDT scheme for defending against this attack has several advantages. The great benefit of it is that the base station can still receive the information on time even some packets have been dropped; therefore, it is more suitable in monitor systems.
ISBN:1424412714
9781424412716
ISSN:2159-3442
2159-3450
DOI:10.1109/TENCON.2007.4428866