How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium
IEEE Security and Privacy
TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Topologically-Aware Worm Propagation Model for Wireless Sensor Networks
ICDCSW '05 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS) (ICDCSW'05) - Volume 02
Modeling Node Compromise Spread in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Epidemic Theory
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Models and solutions for radio irregularity in wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Understanding the causes of packet delivery success and failure in dense wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Bluetooth Worms: Models, Dynamics, and Defense Implications
ACSAC '06 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet E-mail Worms
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Towards a resilient operating system for wireless sensor networks
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Modeling Propagation Dynamics of Bluetooth Worms
ICDCS '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A Feasibility Study on Defending Against Ultra-Fast TopologicalWorms
P2P '07 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Data forwarding in extremely low duty-cycle sensor networks with unreliable communication links
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Towards self-propagate mal-packets in sensor networks
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
Improving sensor network immunity under worm attacks: a software diversity approach
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Maximum damage malware attack in mobile wireless networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Optimal response to attacks on the open science grid
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Self-propagating mal-packets have become an emergent threat against information confidentiality, integrity, and service availability in wireless sensor networks. While playing an important role for people to interact with surrounding environment, wireless sensor networks suffer from growing security concerns posed by mal-packets because of sensor networks' low physical security, lack of resilience and robustness of underlying operating systems, and the ever-increasing complexity of deployed applications. In this paper, we study the propagation of mal-packets in 802.15.4 based wireless sensor networks. Based on our proposed mal-packet self-propagation models, we use TOSSIM, a simulator for wireless sensor networks, to study their propagation dynamics. We also present a study of the feasibility of mal-packet defense in sensor networks. Specifically, we apply random graph theory and percolation theory to investigate the immunization of highly-connected nodes, i.e., nodes with high degrees of connectivity. Our goal is to partition the network into as many separate pieces as possible, thus preventing or slowing down the mal-packet propagation. We study the percolation thresholds of different network densities and the effectiveness of immunization in terms of connection ratio, remaining link ratio, and distribution of component sizes. We also present an analysis of the distribution of component sizes.