Using Mobile Agents to Detect and Recover from Node Compromise in Path-based DoS Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
Bai Li, Lynn Batten · 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007) · 2007
Wireless sensor networks represent a new generation of real-time embedded systems with significantly different communication constraints from the traditional networked systems. With their development, a new attack called a path- based DoS (PDoS) attack has appeared. In a PDoS attack, an adversary, either inside or outside the network, overwhelms sensor nodes by flooding a multi-hop end-to- end communication path with either replayed packets or injected spurious packets. Detection and recovery from PDoS attacks have not been given much attention in the literature. In this article, we propose a solution using mobile agents which can detect PDoS attacks easily and efficiently and recover the compromised nodes.