Energy efficient MAC length determination method for statistical en-route filtering using fuzzy logic

  • Authors:
  • Hyeon Myeong Choi;Tae Ho Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) individual sensor nodes are subject to security compromises. An adversary can use compromised sensor nodes to inject false reports into the WSN. If undetected, these false reports are forwarded to the base station. Such attacks by compromised sensor nodes can not only result in false alarms but also depletion of the limited amount of energy in battery powered sensor nodes. The statistical en-routing filtering (SEF) scheme can detect and drop false reports during the forwarding process. In SEF, the number of the message authentication codes (MAC length) is important for detecting false reports and saving energy in network. In this paper, we present a fuzzy-based MAC length determination method for SEF. If there are fewer nodes surrounding the occurred event in the field in the network than the MAC length, the node cannot generate a legitimate report in SEF. The fuzzy-based method can prevent this problem and provide energy savings. We evaluated the proposed method's performance via simulation.