TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing robust routing protocols to protect base stations in wireless sensor networks
AU - Chen, Juan
AU - Zhang, Hongli
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Fang, Binxing
AU - Yan, Liu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2014/12/10
Y1 - 2014/12/10
N2 - A base station is the controller and the data-receiving center of a wireless sensor network. Hence, a reliable and secure base station is critical to the network. Once an attacker locates the base station, he or she can do many damages to the network. In this paper, we examine the base station location privacy problem from both the attack and defense sides. First, we present a new attack on base station: parent-based attack scheme (PAS). PAS can locate a base station within one radio (wireless transmission) range of sensors in high-density sensor networks. Different from existing methods, PAS determines the base station location on the basis of parent-child relationship of sensor nodes. Existing base station protection schemes cannot defend against PAS. Second, on the basis of PAS, we propose a two-phase parent-based attack scheme (TP-PAS). Our simulation results demonstrate that TP-PAS is able to determine the base station successfully in both low-density and high-density sensor networks. Then, to defend against PAS and TP-PAS, we design a child-based routing protocol and a parent-free routing protocol for sensor networks. Our theory analysis and experiment results show that the parent-free routing protocol has more communication cost and less end-to-end latency compared with the child-based routing protocol.
AB - A base station is the controller and the data-receiving center of a wireless sensor network. Hence, a reliable and secure base station is critical to the network. Once an attacker locates the base station, he or she can do many damages to the network. In this paper, we examine the base station location privacy problem from both the attack and defense sides. First, we present a new attack on base station: parent-based attack scheme (PAS). PAS can locate a base station within one radio (wireless transmission) range of sensors in high-density sensor networks. Different from existing methods, PAS determines the base station location on the basis of parent-child relationship of sensor nodes. Existing base station protection schemes cannot defend against PAS. Second, on the basis of PAS, we propose a two-phase parent-based attack scheme (TP-PAS). Our simulation results demonstrate that TP-PAS is able to determine the base station successfully in both low-density and high-density sensor networks. Then, to defend against PAS and TP-PAS, we design a child-based routing protocol and a parent-free routing protocol for sensor networks. Our theory analysis and experiment results show that the parent-free routing protocol has more communication cost and less end-to-end latency compared with the child-based routing protocol.
KW - Base station
KW - Routing protocol
KW - Security
KW - Wireless sensor network
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U2 - 10.1002/wcm.2300
DO - 10.1002/wcm.2300
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907868255
SN - 1530-8669
VL - 14
SP - 1613
EP - 1626
JO - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
JF - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
IS - 17
ER -