Abstract
Electrostatic field-based routing (EFR) is a form of geographical multi-path routing where packets are routed along (a collection of) paths corresponding to electrostatic field lines defined by the charges associated with source and sink nodes. Ideally, EFR provides an efficient and scalable solution to the workload balancing problem, thereby promoting a more even depletion of the energy resources among the participating sensors. However, in addition to not being adaptable to the realistic settings that consider the actual nodes' locations, it also assumes that nodes behave in a cooperative manner. This, in turn, renders it vulnerable to various attacks. In this article, we investigate the security aspects of EFR-based routing protocols, focusing on an instance of EFR called multi-pole field persistent routing (MP-FPR). While advancing the naïve EFR in terms of the better location-awareness energy balancing, MP-FPR is still susceptible to the same family of attacks. We provide systematic identification of the attacks that can target different components of the protocol, and propose an extended variant, secure multi-pole field persistent routing (SMP-FPR) which incorporates a collection of defense mechanisms. We present extensive experimental evaluations of the impact of the different attacks and the effectiveness of the proposed defense mechanisms.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 270-295 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Ad Hoc Networks |
| Volume | 36 |
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| State | Published - Jan 2016 |
Funding
Cristina Nita-Rotaru is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science at Purdue University. She leads the Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory. She received BS and MS degrees from Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1995 and 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. She served on the technical program committee of over 40 conference in networking, distributed systems, and security. She received the NSF CAREER award. She served as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Information Security and she is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Her research interests include security and fault-tolerance for distributed systems and networks. Goce Trajcevski received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Sts. Kiril i Metodij, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His main research interests are in the areas of spatio-temoral data management, routing and data management in wireless sensor networks, and reactive behavior in dynamic systems. He has published over 90 papers in refereed conferences and journals and received a Best Paper Award at the CoopIS conference (2000), Best Paper Award at the IEEE MDM conference (2010) and Best Short Paper Award at ACM MSWiM conference (2013). His research has been funded by BEA, Northrop Grumman Corp., NSF and ONR. He has served as an associate editor at ACM DiSC, and is presently an associate editor of GeoInformatica and ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS). He has served on program and organizing committees in numerous conferences and workshops. Currently, he is an Assistant Chairman with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Northwestern University. This research was supported by the NSF grants CNS 0910952 and III 1213038, and ONR grant N00014-14-10215. Peter Scheuermann is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc at Northwestern University. He has held visiting professor positions with the Free University of Amsterdam, the Technical University of Berlin, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and University of Melbourne. Dr. Scheuermann has served on the editorial board of the Communications of ACM, The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and is currently an associate editor of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Wireless Networks and ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS). Among his professional activities, he has served as General Chair of the ACM-SIGMOD Conference in 1988 and 2006, General Chair of the ER ’2003 Conference and more recently as Program Co-Chair of the ACM-SIGPATIAL conference in 2009. He has published more than 140 journal and conference papers. His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, HP, Northrop Grumman and BEA, among others. Peter Scheuermann is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS.
Keywords
- Field based routing
- Security
- Sensor networks
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications