Detecting unknown attacks in wireless sensor networks that contain mobile nodes


Autoria(s): Bankovic, Zorana; Fraga Aydillo, David; Moya Fernández, José Manuel; Vallejo López, Juan Carlos
Data(s)

01/08/2012

Resumo

As wireless sensor networks are usually deployed in unattended areas, security policies cannot be updated in a timely fashion upon identification of new attacks. This gives enough time for attackers to cause significant damage. Thus, it is of great importance to provide protection from unknown attacks. However, existing solutions are mostly concentrated on known attacks. On the other hand, mobility can make the sensor network more resilient to failures, reactive to events, and able to support disparate missions with a common set of sensors, yet the problem of security becomes more complicated. In order to address the issue of security in networks with mobile nodes, we propose a machine learning solution for anomaly detection along with the feature extraction process that tries to detect temporal and spatial inconsistencies in the sequences of sensed values and the routing paths used to forward these values to the base station. We also propose a special way to treat mobile nodes, which is the main novelty of this work. The data produced in the presence of an attacker are treated as outliers, and detected using clustering techniques. These techniques are further coupled with a reputation system, in this way isolating compromised nodes in timely fashion. The proposal exhibits good performances at detecting and confining previously unseen attacks, including the cases when mobile nodes are compromised.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://oa.upm.es/16823/

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM)

Relação

http://oa.upm.es/16823/1/INVE_MEM_2012_137546.pdf

http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/12/8/10834

info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/s120810834

Direitos

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Sensors, ISSN 1424-8220, 2012-08, Vol. 12, No. 8

Palavras-Chave #Telecomunicaciones #Robótica e Informática Industrial #Electrónica
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Artículo

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