Battery-Sensing Intrusion Protection for Wireless Handheld Computers Using a Dynamic Threshold Calculation Algorithm for Attack Detection

Author

Buennemeyer, Timothy K. ; Munshi, Faiz ; Marchany, Randy C. ; Tront, Joseph G.

Author_Institution

Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 2007

Abstract

This paper proposes a pioneering battery-sensing intrusion protection system (B-SIPS) for mobile computers, which alerts on power changes detected on small wireless devices, using an innovative dynamic threshold calculation algorithm. B-SIPS enabled hosts are employed as sensors in a wireless network and form the basis of the intrusion detection system (IDS). This detection capability is scalable and complementary with existing commercial and open system network IDSs. B-SIPS implementation correlates device power consumption with IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi and 802.15.1 Bluetooth communication activity. Irregular and attack activity is detected and reported to the intrusion detection engine for correlation with existing signatures in a database and for forensic investigation by a security manager

Keywords

mobile computing; mobile radio; notebook computers; security of data; 802.15.1 Bluetooth communication; IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi; battery-sensing intrusion protection; dynamic threshold calculation algorithm; mobile computer; open system network; power consumption; wireless device; wireless handheld computer; wireless network; Bluetooth; Energy consumption; Handheld computers; Heuristic algorithms; Intrusion detection; Mobile computing; Open systems; Power system protection; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2007.103

Filename

4076706