Detection of Sybil Attack in Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4 Networks

Author

Amini, Fereshteh ; Misic, Jelena ; Pourreza, Hossein

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

fYear

2008

fDate

6-8 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1058

Lastpage

1063

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a Sybil attack detection algorithm in IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled clusters. Our algorithm is based on received signal strength at the cluster coordinator. It considers the multi-path fading and shadowing and uses only two parties to detect the attacks. Using this technique, the detection of sensor displacement attack is also feasible. The results show high accuracy of attack detection and suggest parameter selection values to keep high level of performance. This lightweight scheme suites the IEEE 802.15.4 network nodes which have limitations in terms of battery energy, memory size and CPU speed.

Keywords

personal area networks; security of data; Sybil attack detection algorithm; beacon enabled IEEE802.15.4 networks; cluster coordinator; multipath fading; multipath shadowing; Batteries; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Detection algorithms; Fading; Intrusion detection; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Shadow mapping; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 2008. IWCMC '08. International

Conference_Location

Crete Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2201-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2202-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2008.184

Filename

4600083