Energy efficient multipath data transfer scheme to mitigate false data injection attack in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are networked systems that are deployed in an application specific region to sense the events of interest. The sensed event information has to be reported to the base station. When the event report is transmitted, adversaries can inject false event messages through compromised nodes on the path of data transfer. Falsified event messages when forwarded through en-route nodes lead to wastage of their limited energy. This study proposes a energy efficient multipath data transfer scheme to address the troubles caused by false data injection attack. This can be done by early detection and filtering of injected false data. Moreover, the multipath data transfer technique prevents the direct access of event information by a compromised en-route node. Simulations show that the proposed scheme could significantly improve the performance of false data filtering process without losing resiliency against node compromisation and data compromisation.