Priming: making the reaction to intrusion or fault predictable

  • Authors:
  • Martin Drozda;Sven Schaust;Sebastian Schildt;Helena Szczerbicka

  • Affiliations:
  • Simulation and Modeling Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany 30167;Simulation and Modeling Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany 30167;Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 38106;Simulation and Modeling Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany 30167

  • Venue:
  • Natural Computing: an international journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose and evaluate an immuno-inspired approach for misbehavior detection in ad hoc wireless networks. Misbehavior is the result of an intrusion, or a software or hardware failure. Our misbehavior detection approach is inspired by the role of co-stimulation and priming in the biological immune system (BIS). We translate priming into a computational paradigm that can increase robustness as well as stimulate energy efficiency of misbehavior detection. We provide a detailed energy consumption analysis with respect to the IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 protocols. We analyze the efficiency of misbehavior detection with co-stimulation and priming. This analysis is complemented with experimental results. We show that co-stimulation and priming introduce new options such as the ability to choose a trade-off between detection performance and energy efficiency. We provide a summary of the challenges related to the design of co-stimulation and priming based architectures. We argue that co-stimulation and priming are rather general paradigms with possible applications in other areas than misbehavior detection.