A Security Adaptation Reference Monitor for Wireless Sensor Network

Tewfiq El-Maliki,Jean-Marc Seigneur

doi:10.5402/2012/528374

Abstract

Security in Wireless Sensor Network has become a hot research topic due to their wide deployment and the increasing new runtime attacks they are facing. We observe that traditional security protocols address conventional security problems and cannot deal with dynamic attacks such as sinkhole dynamic behavior. Moreover, they use resources, and limit the efficient use of sensor resources and inevitably the overall network efficiency is not guaranteed. Therefore, the requirements of new security mechanisms must be addressed in a flexible manner. Indeed, there is a lack of generic security adaptation protocols to deal with extremely dynamic security conditions and performances in a context of Wireless Sensor Network where reliability is a critical criterion for many applications. This paper proposes our Security Adaptation Reference Monitor for Wireless Sensor already validated in proximity-based wireless network. It is based on an autonomic computing security looped system, which fine-tunes security means based on the monitoring of the context. Extensive simulations using agent-based approach have been conducted to verify the performance of our system in the case of sensor network in the presence of sinkhole attacks. The results clearly show that we are efficient in terms of survivability, overall network utilization, and power consumption.

Highlights

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of a large number of low-power, and multifunction sensor nodes that communicate as one hope, multihop, or cluster-based models to send data to one or many base stations (BSs) through wireless links [1]
We propose as an efficient solution our Security Adaptation Reference Monitor (SARM) with its feedback mechanisms and its Trust Function to balance the energy through all reachable nodes to overcome sinkhole attacks
We have proposed a Security Adaptation Reference Monitor based on the reference monitor concept and the autonomic computing Security pattern to support both context monitor and behavior control

Summary

Introduction

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of a large number of low-power, and multifunction sensor nodes that communicate as one hope, multihop, or cluster-based models to send data to one or many base stations (BSs) through wireless links [1]. These BSs are highly enriched with a large amount of energy. Distributed computing and routing could be well applied in case of multihope and cluster-based models These capabilities enable WSNs to provide significant advantages for many applications that were not possible in the past. Since the nodes in WSN are battery operated and have a limited lifetime to operate, there is a growing need of energy aware security algorithm performing low computational load to preserve the network lifetime

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