Seluge: Secure and DoS-Resistant Code Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Sangwon Hyun;Peng Ning;An Liu;Wenliang Du

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are considered ideal candidates for a widerange of applications, such as industry monitoring, data acquisitionin hazardous environments, and military operations. It is desirableand sometimes necessary to reprogram sensor nodes through wirelesslinks after deployment, due to, for example, the need of removingbugs and adding new functionalities. The process of propagating anew code image to the nodes in a wireless sensor network is referredto as code dissemination. This paper presents the design,implementation, and evaluation of an efficient, secure, robust, andDoS-resistant code dissemination system named Seluge forwireless sensor networks. Seluge is a secure extension to Deluge, an open source, state-of-the-art code disseminationsystem for wireless sensor networks. It provides securityprotections for code dissemination, including the integrityprotection of code images and immunity from, to the best of ourknowledge, all DoS attacks that exploit code disseminationprotocols. Seluge is superior to all previous attempts for securecode dissemination, and is the only solution that seamlesslyintegrates the security mechanisms and the Deluge efficientpropagation strategies. Besides the theoretical analysis thatdemonstrates the security and performance of Seluge, this paper alsoreports the experimental evaluation of Seluge in a network of MicaZmotes, which shows the efficiency of Seluge in practice.