Patrol Detection for Replica Attacks on Wireless Sensor Networks 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2011, 11, 2496-2504; doi:10.3390/s110302496 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Communication Patrol Detection for Replica Attacks on Wireless Sensor Networks Liang-Min Wang 1,* and Yang Shi 2 1 School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China 2 School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China; E-Mail: shw@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: wanglm@; Tel.: +86-511-8878-0375; Fax: +86-511-8878-03751. Received: 31 December 2010; in revised form: 10 February 2011 / Accepted: 14 February 2011 / Published: 28 February 2011 Abstract: Replica attack is a critical concern in the security of wireless sensor networks. We employ mobile nodes as patrollers to detect replicas distributed in different zones in a network, in which a basic patrol detection protocol and two detection algorithms for stationary and mobile modes are presented. Then we perform security analysis to discuss the defense strategies against the possible attacks on the proposed detection protocol. Moreover, we show the advantages of the proposed protocol by discussing and comparing the communication cost and detection probability with some existing methods. Keywords: wireless sensor networks; security; replica attack; mobile nodes 1. Introduction Wireless sensor networks are usually deployed in hostile environments for their unattended nature which makes nodes in the network dangerous to be captured by an adversary. The adversary can compromise the captured nodes and obtain all the secrets of the nodes, replicate the compromised nodes to get many replicas with the same node identity. Then she can launch an insidious attack with these “legitimate” nodes.  Sensors 2011, 11 2497 The compromised node and its replicas can join the network and act as any benign nodes.