Real-Time Detection of Clone Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

A central problem in sensor network security is that sensors are susceptible to physical capture attacks. Once a sensor is compromised, the adversary can easily launch clone attacks by replicating the compromised node, distributing the clones throughout the network, and starting a variety of insider attacks. Previous works against clone attacks suffer from either a high communication/storage overhead or a poor detection accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for detecting clone attacks in sensor networks, which computes for each sensor a social fingerprint by extracting the neighborhood characteristics, and verifies the legitimacy of the originator for each message by checking the enclosed fingerprint. The fingerprint generation is based on the superimposed s-disjunct code, which incurs a very light communication and computation overhead. The fingerprint verification is conducted at both the base station and the neighboring sensors, which ensures a high detection pro...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Kai Xing, Fang Liu, Xiuzhen Cheng, David Hung-Chang Du
• Keywords: Clone Attacks, Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2008, Sensor, Sensor Networks