JOIV : International Journal on Informatics Visualization
Vol 3, No 1 (2019)

A Dynamic ID Assignment Mechanism to Defend Against Node Replication Attack in Static Wireless Sensor Networks

Mojtaba Jamshidi (Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran)
Abdusalam Abdulla Shaltooki (University of Human Development, Sulaimani, Iraq)
Zahra Dagal Zadeh (Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran)
Aso Mohammad Darwesh (University of Human Development, Sulaimani, Iraq)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Sep 2018

Abstract

One of the known dangerous attacks against wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is node replica. In this attack, adversary captures one or more normal nodes of the network, generates copies of them (replicas) and deploy them in the network. These copied nodes are controlled by the adversary which can establish a shared key with other nodes of the network easily and exchange information. In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed to defend against this attack in static sensor networks. The proposed algorithm employs a multi-tree architecture to assign ID to the nodes dynamically and prevent attachment of the injected replica nodes to the network by the adversary. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of memory, communication, and computation overheads and the results are compared with other existing algorithms. Comparison results indicate the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of mentioned measures. In addition, the proposed algorithm is simulated and its efficiency is evaluated in terms of probability of detecting replica nodes. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm has favorable performance in detection of replica nodes.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

joiv

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

JOIV : International Journal on Informatics Visualization is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to interchange for the results of high quality research in all aspect of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and Visualization. The journal publishes state-of-art ...