A Fuzzy Logic System for Detecting Ping Pong Effect Attack in IEEE 802.15.4 Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Network

Abstract

IEEE 802.15.4 is an emerging standard specifically designed for low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPAN) with a focus on enabling the wireless sensor networks. It attempts to provide a low data rate, low power, and low cost wireless networking on the device-level communication. In low rate wireless personal area networks the position of each node changes over time. A network protocol that is able to dynamically update its links in order to maintain strong connectivity is said to be self-reconfiguring. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy logic system for detecting ping pong effect attack in low rate wireless personal area networks design method with self-reconfiguring protocol for power efficiency. The LR-WPAN is self-organized to clusters using an unsupervised clustering method, fuzzy clustering means (FCM). A fuzzy logic system is applied to master/controller selection for each cluster. A self-reconfiguring topology is proposed to manage the mobility and recursively update the network topology. We also modify the mobility management scheme with hysteresis to detect the ping-pong effect attack.