INSENS: Intrusion-tolerant routing for wireless sensor networks

This paper describes an INtrusion-tolerant routing protocol for wireless SEnsor NetworkS (INSENS). INSENS securely and efficiently constructs tree-structured routing for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The key objective of an INSENS network is to tolerate damage caused by an intruder who has compromised deployed sensor nodes and is intent on injecting, modifying, or blocking packets. To limit or localize the damage caused by such an intruder, INSENS incorporates distributed lightweight security mechanisms, including efficient oneway hash chains and nested keyed message authentication codes that defend against wormhole attacks, as well as multipath routing. Adapting to WSN characteristics, the design of INSENS also pushes complexity away from resource-poor sensor nodes towards resource-rich base stations. An enhanced single-phase version of INSENS scales to large networks, integrates bidirectional verification to defend against rushing attacks, accommodates multipath routing to multip...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: COMCOM
• Authors: Jing Deng, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra
• Keywords: COMCOM 2006, INtrusion-tolerant Routing Protocol, Multipath Routing, Wireless Sensor Networks