A Novel Energy-efficient Wormhole Attack Prevention Protocol for WSN based on Trust and Reputation Factors

Saad Al-Ahmadi

2022

Abstract

The deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for the Internet of Things (IoT) is important, but this also poses some security issues. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to various attacks, such as the Wormhole attack. The Wormhole attack is one of the most severe attacks on WSNs that is particularly challenging to defend against even when the communication is authentic, and sensors are not compromised. Existing techniques to detect and protect against Wormhole attacks place a substantial burden on the scarce sensor resources and do not consider the dynamic nature of the network. In this paper, a novel Energy Efficient Wormhole Attack Prevention Protocol (EWATR) is proposed to protect WSNs against Wormhole attacks. EWATR is based on trust and reputation among WSN nodes that consider the dynamic nature of the network. This study also compares EWATR against several state-of-the-art trust and reputation models through extensive simulations using the TRMSim-WSN simulator. Eventually, the simulation results show the superiority of EWATR over other proposed protocols in terms of efficient energy consumption and shorter path length.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Al-Ahmadi S. (2022). A Novel Energy-efficient Wormhole Attack Prevention Protocol for WSN based on Trust and Reputation Factors. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-551-7, pages 191-201. DOI: 10.5220/0010951400003118

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets22,
author={Saad Al-Ahmadi},
title={A Novel Energy-efficient Wormhole Attack Prevention Protocol for WSN based on Trust and Reputation Factors},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2022},
pages={191-201},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010951400003118},
isbn={978-989-758-551-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - A Novel Energy-efficient Wormhole Attack Prevention Protocol for WSN based on Trust and Reputation Factors
SN - 978-989-758-551-7
AU - Al-Ahmadi S.
PY - 2022
SP - 191
EP - 201
DO - 10.5220/0010951400003118