Selective forwarding attack is a dangerous attack in wireless sensor networks, in which a malicious node attempts to drop some incoming packets. This means that it refuses to forward them to destination. Selective forwarding attack has a highly destructive impact on multi-hop routing protocols in wireless sensor networks and decreases the packets delivery ratio to sinks. This paper proposes a secure routing protocol against selective forwarding attack in wireless sensor networks. The main idea of the proposed algorithm is to establish a cell structure within the network so that W=1 node plays the monitoring role in each cell that monitors activities of the remaining nodes in the cell. By overhearing traffic within the cell, the observer nodes find out whether the nodes are maliciously drop packets. If the observer nodes recognize that a node is malicious and does not forward the incoming packet to the destination, they will alter the path of the packets. The proposed algorithm was implemented and its performance was compared with four existing algorithms in terms of packet delivery ratio to the sink. The results of the comparison show that the proposed algorithm has better performance.
Sara Kamari : received the both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Her research interests include wireless Sensor Networks and Security.
Mojtaba Jamshidi : received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Academic Center of Education, Kermanshah, Iran, in 2009, and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran, in 2012. His research interests include Computer networks, learning systems, Security, Data Mining, and Recommender Systems.
This paper proposed a new routing algorithm to be resistant against selective forwarding attack. The proposed algorithm uses a cell structure with overhear mechanism through the monitoring nodes mechanism to remove malicious nodes from data routes to the sink. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated in terms of memory, communication and processing overhead. Its performance was also evaluated by simulation in terms of packet delivery ratio to the sink. The results were compared with four other algorithms that indicate the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
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