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Citation
Tanya Roosta, Sameer Pai, Phoebus Chen, Shankar Sastry, Stephen Wicker. "The Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks". Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM'07), IEEE, November, 2007.

Abstract
Many of the routing protocols that have been designed for wireless ad-hoc networks focus on energy-efficiency and guaranteeing high throughput in a non-adversarial setting. However, given that ad-hoc and sensor networks are deployed and left unattended for long periods of time, it is crucial to design secure routing protocols for these networks. Over the past few years, attacks on the routing protocols have been studied and a number of secure routing protocols have been designed for wireless sensor networks. However, there has not been a comprehensive study of how these protocols compare in terms of achieving security goals and maintaining high throughput. In this paper, we focus on the problem of analyzing the inherent security of routing protocols with respect to two categories: multi-path and single-path routing. Within each category, we focus on deterministic vs. probabilistic mechanisms for setting up the routes. We consider the scenario in which an adversary has subverted a subset of the nodes, and as a result, the paths going through these nodes are compromised. We present our findings through simulation results.

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  Sensor Networks</a>, Proceedings of the 50th Annual
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  Tanya Roosta, Sameer Pai, Phoebus Chen, Shankar Sastry,
  Stephen Wicker. "The Inherent Security of Routing
  Protocols in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks". Proceedings
  of the 50th Annual IEEE Global Communications Conference
  (IEEE GLOBECOM'07), IEEE, November, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{RoostaPaiChenSastryWicker07_InherentSecurityOfRoutingProtocolsInAdHocSensorNetworks,
      author = {Tanya Roosta and Sameer Pai and Phoebus Chen and
                Shankar Sastry and Stephen Wicker},
      title = {The Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad
                Hoc and Sensor Networks},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE Global
                Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM'07)},
      organization = {IEEE},
      month = {November},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Many of the routing protocols that have been
                designed for wireless ad-hoc networks focus on
                energy-efficiency and guaranteeing high throughput
                in a non-adversarial setting. However, given that
                ad-hoc and sensor networks are deployed and left
                unattended for long periods of time, it is crucial
                to design secure routing protocols for these
                networks. Over the past few years, attacks on the
                routing protocols have been studied and a number
                of secure routing protocols have been designed for
                wireless sensor networks. However, there has not
                been a comprehensive study of how these protocols
                compare in terms of achieving security goals and
                maintaining high throughput. In this paper, we
                focus on the problem of analyzing the inherent
                security of routing protocols with respect to two
                categories: multi-path and single-path routing.
                Within each category, we focus on deterministic
                vs. probabilistic mechanisms for setting up the
                routes. We consider the scenario in which an
                adversary has subverted a subset of the nodes, and
                as a result, the paths going through these nodes
                are compromised. We present our findings through
                simulation results.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/327.html}
  }
  

Posted by Sameer Pai on 30 Mar 2008.
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