TY - GEN
T1 - Recovering from the selective forwarding attack in WSNs - Enhancing the recovery benefits of blacklisting and rerouting using directional antennas
AU - Stavrou, Eliana
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/22
Y1 - 2014/9/22
N2 - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face a number of security challenges that can compromise their operation. A typical security attack that can be launched by an adversary, in order to affect the network's communication, is the selective forwarding attack. If compromisation occurs, it is essential to recover the network to a stable state. In the context of mission-critical WSNs the challenge is not just to recover from compromisation but it is vital to restore an enhanced network operation in order to support a reliable decision-making. Sensor nodes usually address the selective forwarding attack by deploying blacklisting and rerouting. These countermeasures have been proposed in the context of omni-directional networks. This research work investigates the utilization of directional antennas in WSNs in order to increase the recovery benefits gained by the blacklisting and rerouting countermeasures in terms of reliability, survivability and responsiveness, attributes that are vital for the operation of mission-critical applications.
AB - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face a number of security challenges that can compromise their operation. A typical security attack that can be launched by an adversary, in order to affect the network's communication, is the selective forwarding attack. If compromisation occurs, it is essential to recover the network to a stable state. In the context of mission-critical WSNs the challenge is not just to recover from compromisation but it is vital to restore an enhanced network operation in order to support a reliable decision-making. Sensor nodes usually address the selective forwarding attack by deploying blacklisting and rerouting. These countermeasures have been proposed in the context of omni-directional networks. This research work investigates the utilization of directional antennas in WSNs in order to increase the recovery benefits gained by the blacklisting and rerouting countermeasures in terms of reliability, survivability and responsiveness, attributes that are vital for the operation of mission-critical applications.
KW - WSN
KW - directional antennas
KW - enhance recovery
KW - selective forwarding attack
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908635385&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906373
DO - 10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906373
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908635385
T3 - IWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
SP - 299
EP - 303
BT - IWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2014
Y2 - 4 August 2014 through 8 August 2014
ER -