Torching Detection for Node Replica Attack In Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks consists various sensor nodes with different roles. In this type network, CH is a vital sensor node which plays a local data aggregator role and delivery of the aggregated data to the BS. For that reason, the CH election should be protected from the adversary. Because the adversary can compromise the sensornode and creates the clones of the compromised sensor nodes. And finally, involve them in the CH election process to assign the CH role to the clone nodes. Many schemes have been proposed to protect the clone attack from being elected as CH during cluster formation operation, however, they suffer in case of communication cost and energy consumption. In fact, if process the CH election and rotates among trustworthy nodes, we can secure the cluster formation process from the clone attack. That is the reason we proposed a clone attack detection scheme which detects a clone attacks during CH election operation. The proposed scheme computes TRAPDOOR for each sensor node to control the release time of CH advertisement messages and identifies the exact cluster community that one sensor node should belong to it. The clone attack detection is conducted at the Basestation and the cluster community. Likewise, the performance and security analysis indicated that our scheme outperforms a clone attack detection during CH election process with low communication cost and energy consumption