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Citation
"A Power-Preserving Broadcast Protocol for WSNs with DoS Resistance.". C. Ni, T. Hsiang, J. D. Tygar (eds.), August, 2008.

Abstract
Broadcast presents a special challenge for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In some situation such as time synchronization or building routing path, broadcasting messages must be securely transmitted to all nodes, but this process is subject to attack by adversaries. For example, an adversary may try to waste the battery power of intermediate nodes by forcing a compromised node to repeatedly rebroadcast, thus causing a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. One way to solve this problem is use only part of the nodes in the network as the intermediate nodes, limiting the effects of the attack. In this paper, we propose a novel broadcast protocol: BrOadcast Power Preserving (BOPP). In BOPP, a packet reception reliability metric of each network component is discovered. This reliability score gives the packet reception rate of each communication edge in the network. With the scoring metric, BOPP can judge the network reliability from time to time and adapt the network to provide maximum reliability while minimizing the energy cost. This enables the network to resist DoS attacks.

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   "A Power-Preserving Broadcast Protocol for WSNs with
  DoS Resistance.". C. Ni, T. Hsiang, J. D. Tygar (eds.),
  August, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @proceedings{NiHsiangTygar08_PowerPreservingBroadcastProtocolForWSNsWithDoSResistance,
      title = {A Power-Preserving Broadcast Protocol for WSNs
                with DoS Resistance.},
      editor = {C. Ni, T. Hsiang, J. D. Tygar},
      month = {August},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {Broadcast presents a special challenge for
                Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In some situation
                such as time synchronization or building routing
                path, broadcasting messages must be securely
                transmitted to all nodes, but this process is
                subject to attack by adversaries. For example, an
                adversary may try to waste the battery power of
                intermediate nodes by forcing a compromised node
                to repeatedly rebroadcast, thus causing a
                Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. One way to solve
                this problem is use only part of the nodes in the
                network as the intermediate nodes, limiting the
                effects of the attack. In this paper, we propose a
                novel broadcast protocol: BrOadcast Power
                Preserving (BOPP). In BOPP, a packet reception
                reliability metric of each network component is
                discovered. This reliability score gives the
                packet reception rate of each communication edge
                in the network. With the scoring metric, BOPP can
                judge the network reliability from time to time
                and adapt the network to provide maximum
                reliability while minimizing the energy cost. This
                enables the network to resist DoS attacks.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/730.html}
  }
  

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