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Title A HYBRID RANDOM WALK ASSISTED ZONE-BASED CLONE NODE DETECTION PROTOCOL IN STATIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Author(s) Muhammad Numan

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically deployed in harsh and insecure environments, where the sensor nodes are generally unshielded or not tamper-resistance. As a result, WSNs suffer from such attack known as clone node or node replication attack. This attack is simply done by physically capturing the legitimate node in the network and then creating a clone with the same ID of the legitimate node. Moreover, these clones can be re-programmed for internal attacks, such as black-hole and wormhole attack, DoS attack, extract data from the network, injecting false data, disconnect the legitimate nodes through voting schemes etc. After taking control, the adversary created multiple clones on the network for various malicious activities. Therefore, clone attack is considered extremely effective because cloned devices with real information are considered real devices that can expose different protocols and sensor applications. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been developed with the subject matter through which we identified the most likely solutions to encounter clone attacks are witness node based techniques. However, they have some notable weaknesses that need to be overcome and detect clones in a more effective and efficient way. In view of the disadvantages of existing techniques based on witness nodes, this work presents a distributed technique called Hybrid Random Walk assisted Zone-Based (HRWZ) for the detection of clone nodes in static WSNs. The method is based on the Claimer-ReporterWitness (CRW) framework. In HRWZ the network is divided into zones and a random walk approach called single stage memory random walk has been used for random selection of claimer, reporter and Zone-Leader nodes, which solved the usual problem of a simple or pure random walk. In HRWZ, Zone-Leaders are responsible for clone nodes detection locally and globally in the network. HRWZ is simulated under different settings to compare the clone detection probability, communication, memory and computation costs, with three witness node based techniques, such as RM, LSM, and RAWL. The simulation results confirm the improved performance and reliability of the proposed HRWZ technique. This scheme not only reduces the communication and storage costs, but also provides an effective method of Zone-Leader selection for high detection probability of clones. Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, Clone Node Detection, Systematic Literature Review, Challenges

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Computer Science

Language English

Publication Date 2020-06-17

Subject Computer Science

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Contributor(s) Muhammad Numan, Dr. Fazli Subhan

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Rights NUML, Islamabad