Intrusion Detection Algorithm Based on Neighbor Information Against Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks

Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in many applications, such as Smart Grid. However, it is generally known that WSNs are energy limited, which makes WSNs vulnerable to malicious attacks. Among these malicious attacks, a sinkhole attack is the most destructive one, since only one sinkhole node can attract surrounding nodes with unfaithful routing information, and it executes severe malicious attacks, e.g. the selective forwarding attack. In addition, a sinkhole node can cause a large amount of energy wastes of surrounding nodes, which results in abnormal energy hole in WSNs. Thus, it is necessary to design an effective mechanism to detect the sinkhole attack. In this paper, we propose a novel Intrusion Detection Algorithm based on neighbor information against Sinkhole Attack (IDASA). Different from traditional intrusion detection algorithms, IDASA takes full advantage of neighbor information of sensor nodes to detect sinkhole nodes. In addition, we evaluate IDASA in terms of malicious node detection accuracy, packet loss rate, energy consumption and network throughput in MATLAB. Simulation results show that the performance of IDASA is better than that of other related algorithms.The work is supported by 'Natural Science Foundation of JiangSu Province of China, No. BK20131137', `Science and Technology Pillar Program (Social development) of Changzhou Science and Technology Bureau, No. CE20135052', 'the Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology's Internal Project, No. 2012RC0106', 'Jiangsu Province Ordinary University Graduate Innovation Project, No. CXZZ13_02'. Jaime Lloret's work has been partially supported by the 'Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion', through the 'Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011' in the 'Subprograma de Proyectos de Investigacion Fundamental', project TEC2011-27516.Han, G.; Li, X.; Jiang, J.; Shu, L.; Lloret, J. (2015). Intrusion Detection Algorithm Based on Neighbor Information Against Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer Journal. 58(6):1280-1292. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxu0361280129258