Mitigating Attacks against Virtual Coordinate Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Jing Dong, Kurt E. Ackermann, Brett Bavar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru

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Virtual coordinate system (VCS) based routing provides a practical, efficient and scalable means for point-to-point routing in wireless sensor networks. Several VCS-based routing protocols have been proposed in the last few years, all assuming that nodes behave correctly. However, many applications require deploying sensor networks in adversarial environments, making VCS-based routing protocols vulnerable to numerous attacks. In this paper, we study the security of VCS-based routing protocols. We first identify novel attacks targeting the underlying virtual coordinate system. The attacks can be mounted with little resource, yet are epidemic in nature and highly destructive to system performance. We then propose lightweight defense mechanisms against each of the identified attacks. Finally, we evaluate experimentally the impact of the attacks and the effectiveness of our defense mechanisms using a well-known VCS-based routing protocol, BVR.

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2008 – 03 – 31

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Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec '08)

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ACM

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Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

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2008-03-31

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Sensor network routing, security, virtual coordinate system, routing, beacon vector routing, secure beacon vector routing

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English

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Virtual coordinate systems, secure sensor network routing

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@Inproceedings{ wisec2008,
	title = "Mitigating Attacks against Virtual Coordinate Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks",
	author = "Jing Dong, Kurt E. Ackermann, Brett Bavar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru",
	year = "2008",
	month = "03",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec '08)",
	publisher = "ACM",
	day = "31",
	abstract = "Virtual coordinate system (VCS) based routing provides a practical, efficient and scalable means for point-to-point routing in wireless sensor networks.  Several VCS-based routing protocols have been proposed in the last few years, all assuming that nodes behave correctly.  However, many applications require deploying sensor networks in adversarial environments, making VCS-based routing protocols vulnerable to numerous attacks. 
    
In this paper, we study the security of VCS-based routing protocols. We first identify novel attacks targeting the underlying virtual coordinate system. The attacks can be mounted with little resource, yet are epidemic in nature and highly destructive to system performance. We then propose lightweight defense mechanisms against each of the identified attacks. Finally, we evaluate experimentally the impact of the attacks and the effectiveness of our defense mechanisms using a well-known VCS-based routing protocol, BVR.",
	affiliation = "Department of Computer Science, Purdue University",
	keywords = "Sensor network routing, security, virtual coordinate system, routing, beacon vector routing, secure beacon vector routing",
	language = "English",
	subject = "Virtual coordinate systems, secure sensor network routing",
}