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Intrusion Detection System for

Wireless Sensor Networks:


Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Dr. Huirong Fu

Outline
Overview of Wireless Sensor Network
(WSN)
Project Objective:
how to detect attacks on WSN?

Project Tasks:
Intrusion detection system

More Information
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WSN Overview

Applications of WSNs
Components of a Sensor
WSN Communication Models
Attacks on WSN

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Overview: Applications of WSNs

Military
Disaster Detection and Relief
Industry
Agriculture
Environmental Monitoring
Intelligent Buildings
Health/Medical
Law Enforcement
Transportation
Space Exploration

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Overview: Components of a Sensor

Sensing Unit
Processing Unit
Storage Unit
Power Unit
Wireless
Transmitter/Receiver

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Overview: Communication Models


Hierarchical WSN
Sensor Nodes
Cluster Nodes
Base Stations

Distributed WSN

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Overview: Attacks on WSN (1/3)


DoS, DDoS attacks which affect network
availability
Eavesdropping, sniffing which can threaten
confidential data
Man-in-the-middle attacks which can affect
packet integrity
Signal jamming which affects communication

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Overview: Attacks on WSN (2/3)

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Overview: Attacks on WSN (3/3)

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Project Objective
How to detect attacks on WSN?
Intrusion Detection System (IDS): Design,
implementation and evaluation

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Project Tasks
Literature survey on IDS for WSN
What have been proposed?
Have they been implemented and evaluated?
What are the Pros and Cons of each?

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Project Tasks
Make decision
Shall we extend some of the works, or
Design a novel IDS?

Design, implementation and evaluation


What are the requirements for an ideal IDS?
What are the challenges?
What are the hardware and software
available?
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Existing security measures


2Intrusion detection based on AODV (Ad hoc
On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol)
Pros
Sophisticated algorithm for detecting and reacting to a
great variety of potential wireless network attacks using
an anomaly detection pattern
Works well for ad-hoc wireless networks

Cons
Computationally expensive
Currently not deployed on wireless sensor networks
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Existing security measures


4Effective Intrusion Detection using Multiple Sensors
in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Pros
Mobile agent based intrusion detection
Intelligent routing of intrusion data throughout the
network
Lightweight implementation

Cons
Agent only deployed on a fraction of the network nodes
Not deployed on completely wireless sensor networks
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Existing security measures


3INSENS (Intrusion Tolerant Routing
Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks)
Pros
Allows an alternative network route to be
established between non-malicious nodes

Cons
Does not provide intrusion detection, but rather
intrusion tolerance
Still requires the sacrifice of a small number of
wireless sensor nodes
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Our IDS System


Uses Motelvs TMote wireless sensors.
Developed using MoteIvs proprietary
software--TMote Tools
Cygwin
Java
TinyOS programming language
Enhanced with a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE for
programming and compiling the TinyOS
modules
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IDS Wireless Sensor Setup

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Our IDS System Design


Uses anomaly detection pattern
Establishes a baseline of normal traffic
between wireless sensor nodes over a
specified time interval
Compares current traffic against this baseline
traffic over the same specified time interval
Makes a determination as to whether or not a
DoS attack is occurring
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Our IDS System Design


Communication
between wireless
sensor nodes

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Activity diagram for W


ireless Sensor Node co
mmunication

Our IDS System Design contd


Emulation of a DoS
attack

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Activity design for Emula


tion of a
DoS attack

References
1Denial of Service in Sensor Networks
2Wireless Sensor Networks for Intrusion
Detection: Packet Traffic Modeling
3INSENS: Intrusion-Tolerant Routing in
Wireless Sensor Networks
4Effective Intrusion Detection Using
Multiple Sensors in Wireless Ad Hoc
Networks
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References
MoteIv
http://www.moteiv.com/community/Moteiv_Co
mmunity

TMote Tutorial
http://cents.cs.berkeley.edu/tinywiki/index.p
hp/Tmote_Windows_install

TinyOS
http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-1.x/doc/tutorial/in
dex.html
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