Synchronization and Time Slot-Based Method for Vampire Attacks Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

ABSTRACT: Ad hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) promise exciting new applications in the near future, such as ubiquitous on-demand computing power, continuous connectivity, and instantly deployable communication for military and first responders. Such networks already monitor environmental conditions, factory performance, and troop deployment, to name a few applications. As WSNs become more and more crucial to the everyday functioning of people and organizations, availability faults become less tolerable—lack of availability can make the difference between businesses as usual and lost productivity. Ad hoc low-power wireless networks are an exciting research direction in sensing computing. Prior security work in this area has focused primarily on denial of communication at the routing or medium access control levels. This paper explores resource depletion attacks at the routing protocol layer, which permanently disable networks by quickly draining nodes ’ battery power. These ―Vampire ‖ attacks are not specific to any specific protocol, but rather rely on the properties of many popular classes of routing protocols. It is found that all examined protocols are susceptible to Vampire attacks, which are devastating, difficult to detect, and are easy to carry out using as few as one malicious insider sending only protocol-compliant messages. Carousel attack and Stretch attack are the possible scenarios occurred. To avoid such attacks attestation based forwarding scheme and loose source routing is proposed. The thesis proposes the concepts using Content and Presence Multicast Protocol (CPMP) using the FPD (Future Peak Detection) and RFP