Compromise-Resilient Anti-jamming for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract. Jamming is a kind of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack in which an adversary purposefully emits radio frequency signals to corrupt wireless transmissions. Thus, the communications among normal sensor nodes become difficult or even impossible. Although some research has been conducted on countering jamming attacks, few works considered jamming by insiders. Here, an attacker first compromises some legitimate sensor nodes to acquire the common cryptographic information of the sensor network and then jams the network through those compromised sensors. In this paper, as our initial effort, we propose a compromise-resilient anti-jamming scheme called split-pairing scheme to deal with single insider jamming problem in a one-hop network setting. In our solution, the physical communication channel of a sensor network is determined by the group key shared by all the sensor nodes. When insider jamming happens, the network will generate a new group key to be shared only by all non-compromis...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICICS
• Authors: Xuan Jiang, Wenhui Hu, Sencun Zhu, Guohong Cao
• Keywords: Communication, Communications, ICICS 2010, Sensor, Sensor Networks