Energy Efficient Security Mechanism for Black Hole Attacks in WSNs
Samir Athmani, Djallel Eddine Boubiche, Azeddine Bilami
Journal of Information & Systems Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2013.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jism/fulltext/v3n3/2.pdf
Abstract:
Black hole is one of the most malicious attacks that target sensors routing protocols. The impact of this attack can be very harmful on hierarchical routing protocols. Several security solutions have been proposed to secure WSNs from black hole attacks. However, most of these solutions are complex and energy inefficient. In this paper we propose a hierarchical energy efficient intrusion detection mechanism, to protect sensor network from black hole attacks. Our approach is simple and based on control packets exchange between sensor node and base station. We have experimentally evaluated our system using the NS simulator to demonstrate its effectiveness in detecting and preventing efficiently the black hole attacks.