Detection System of Clone Attacks based on RSSI in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Most of the existing node clone attack detection methods in wireless sensor networks depend on the accurate position information and the synchronization clock information of the network node. However, it is often very difficult to guarantee real-time node location information and synchronization clock information in actual network. Therefore, those detection schemes are either difficult to achieve or is with high cost and low availability. A new detection method based on distance measurement is proposed for detecting node clone attacks in wireless sensor networks, in which three detection rules are defined. It has provided that the design and implementation of the detection system. The system has low requirements for the hardware configuration of the node and is easy to implement; it can make real-time detection of clone node for network security. The analysis and the experiment show the system is secure and reliable.