RESEARCH PAPER ON DETECTION OF ATTACKS IN STATIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) is an accumulation of sensors with constrained resources that work together to accomplish a common objective. WSNs are often installed in harsh environments where because of the unattended nature and lack of tamper proof hardware, an attacker can compromise nodes from the network, and can replicate these captured nodes to many clones using original node’s parameters like unique ID and hence, easily gaining control over the whole sensor network.
The proposed clone detection protocol is an efficient approach which easily detects clones in static Wireless Sensor Networks. It is a witness-based approach where some nodes from the network are randomly selected to increase randomness of the network resulting in increased detection probability of the clones. The proposed approach successfully detects the clones which have forged both unique ID as well as location overcoming the shortcomings of existing approach.