Abstract
The cost efficiency of wireless platforms and their easy
deployment enable the applicability of it in widespread
application domains. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are not
excluded from it. Their application domains vary from industrial
monitoring to military applications. A WSN is a resource-
constrained network and energy of the WSN node is a valuable
resource. Like every other network, WSNs are also vulnerable to
security attacks. A security attack can results in networks
consuming more resources, leading to earlier depletion of node
energy. A significant part of the resource consumption in a WSN
is controlled by the medium access control (MAC) mechanism.
This paper focuses on WSN MAC mechanisms and
countermeasures for attacks targeting the MAC layer in a WSN.
Denial of sleep attacks are the most relevant for WSN MAC as
these types of attacks have shattered effects, which bring down
the sensor lifetime from years to days. This paper proposes a
secure hybrid MAC mechanism, Green and Secure Hybrid
Medium Access Control (GSHMAC) to overcome the devastating
effect of WSN MAC attacks. The proposed mechanism provides
features such as collision threshold-based MAC mode control
and countermeasures on WSN MAC using internal MAC
mechanisms. GSHMAC shows improved energy-efficiency, delay,
and throughput in the presence of attacks, as compared with
state-of-art secure MAC mechanisms.
deployment enable the applicability of it in widespread
application domains. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are not
excluded from it. Their application domains vary from industrial
monitoring to military applications. A WSN is a resource-
constrained network and energy of the WSN node is a valuable
resource. Like every other network, WSNs are also vulnerable to
security attacks. A security attack can results in networks
consuming more resources, leading to earlier depletion of node
energy. A significant part of the resource consumption in a WSN
is controlled by the medium access control (MAC) mechanism.
This paper focuses on WSN MAC mechanisms and
countermeasures for attacks targeting the MAC layer in a WSN.
Denial of sleep attacks are the most relevant for WSN MAC as
these types of attacks have shattered effects, which bring down
the sensor lifetime from years to days. This paper proposes a
secure hybrid MAC mechanism, Green and Secure Hybrid
Medium Access Control (GSHMAC) to overcome the devastating
effect of WSN MAC attacks. The proposed mechanism provides
features such as collision threshold-based MAC mode control
and countermeasures on WSN MAC using internal MAC
mechanisms. GSHMAC shows improved energy-efficiency, delay,
and throughput in the presence of attacks, as compared with
state-of-art secure MAC mechanisms.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE), 2015 International Conference on |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 13 Dec 2015 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Dec 2015 |
| Event | 2015 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE) - Hyderabad, India Duration: 13 Dec 2015 → 16 Dec 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | 2015 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE) |
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| Country/Territory | India |
| City | Hyderabad |
| Period | 13/12/2015 → 16/12/2015 |
Keywords
- Wireless sensor network (WSN), medium access control (MAC), cluster, hybrid-MAC, security, denial of sleep attack, energy efficiency, throughput, delay