Intrusion Tolerance and Anti-Traffic Analysis Strategies For Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Jing Deng;Richard Han;Shivakant Mishra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Colorado at Boulder;University of Colorado at Boulder;University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Venue:
  • DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks face acute security concerns inapplications such as battlefield monitoring. A central pointof failure in a sensor network is the base station, which actsas a collection point of sensor data. In this paper, we investigatetwo attacks that can lead to isolation or failure ofthe base station. In one set of attacks, the base station is isolatedby blocking communication between sensor nodes andthe base station, e.g. by DOS attacks. In the second attack,the location of the base station is deduced by analyzing datatraffic towards the base station, which can lead to jammingand/or discovery and destruction of the base station. To defendagainst these attacks, two secure strategies are proposed.First, secure multi-path routing to multiple destinationbase stations is designed to provide intrusion toleranceagainst isolation of a base station. Second, anti-traffic analysisstrategies are proposed to help disguise the location ofthe base station from eavesdroppers. A performance evaluationis provided for a simulated sensor network, as wellas measurements of cryptographic overhead on real sensornodes.