Location verification based defense against sybil attack in sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Debapriyay Mukhopadhyay;Indranil Saha

  • Affiliations:
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India;Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • ICDCN'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Security is a major concern for a large fraction of sensor network applications. Douceur first introduced the notion of sybil attack [4], where a single entity(node) illegitimately presents multiple identities. As the nodes in sensor networks can be physically captured by an adversary, sybil attack can manifest in a severe form leading to the malfunction of basic operational protocols including routing, resource allocation and misbehavior detection. In this study, we propose a location verification based defense against sybil attack for sensor network where we assume that the network is consisted of static sensor nodes. We report quantitatively about the probability of not being able to detect sybil attack. This probability is indicative of the usefulness of our proposed protocol.