Jamming attack: Behavioral modelling and analysis

The security attacks wireless sensor network (WSN) are increasing. These security attacks degrade the performance of WSN, e.g. energy consumption, throughput, and delay. These are biggest obstacle to make WSN greener. The aim of the paper is to model the behavior of jamming attack and analyze its effect on performance of WSN. Jamming attack jams the traffic in network by blocking the channel. The behavioral modelling and analysis of jamming attack in realistic situations (e.g. sensing in industrial application by following all network rules), gives the clear understanding of jamming attack execution. The paper also presents the possibility of jamming attack in cluster-based WSN, i.e. intelligent cluster head (CH) jamming attack. This degrades the performance of WSN around 30% more than normal reactive jamming attack. The paper finally proposes the requirements for designing the efficient solution against jamming attack.