An Efficient Authentication Scheme Based on deployment knowledge against Mobile Sink Replication Attack in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks

Boqing Zhou, Sujun Li, Weiping Wang, Jianxin Wang, Yun Cheng, Jie Wu
2019 IEEE Internet of Things Journal  
Unattended wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are vulnerable to mobile sink (MS) replication attack. In this attack, using the compromised key information, an attacker can collect data from networks by impersonating sinks. To resist such an attack, some schemes have been proposed. To improve the resilience of MS replication attack of these schemes, we can integrate them with schemes based on deployment knowledge. However, there are the following defects: 1) the probability of mutual
more » ... between a MS and a sensor node is less than 1 and 2) during the authentication phase, the energy consumption of sensor nodes increases significantly as the deployment area expands. In this paper, we construct 3-D backward key chains based on deployment knowledge and propose a new authentication scheme based on these. As compared with these existing related schemes, the detailed theory analysis and simulation results indicate that the scheme can ensure that a MS can be authenticated by sensor nodes, and can improve the resilience of networks' MS replication attack with low energy consumption. Index Terms-3-D backward key chain based on deployment knowledge, authentication, mobile sink (MS) replication attack, unattended wireless sensor networks (UWSNs).
doi:10.1109/jiot.2019.2930823 fatcat:ewro3njuufb33gc7yep5sf7o3q