Detection and mitigation of pulse-delay attacks in pairwise-secured wireless sensor networks. (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dargahi, Tooska; Javadi, Hamid H.S.; Shafie, Hosein; Mousavi, Payam
• Is Part Of: International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 11:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 117
• Page End: 128
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: wireless sensor networks -- WSNs -- security -- time synchronisation -- pulse-delay attacks -- self-healing systems; High performance computing -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; High performance computing; Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0562

Abstract

With the advances in technology, there has been an increasing interest in the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs are vulnerable to a wide class of attacks among which pulse-delay attack puts severe threats to the dependability of such networks. This paper proposes a distributed approach to detect and mitigate such attacks in pairwise-secured WSNs. It provides a lower bound on the radio range under which the distributed approach can be performed. Our simulation experiments validate the correctness and efficiency of the proposed approach.