Committee Chair

Sartipi, Mina

Committee Member

Yang, Li; Harris, Billy

Department

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

In this thesis, we introduce TinyTermite. TinyTermite is a novel probabilistic routing algorithm that is secure against selective forwarding and replay attacks. We use suspicion pheromone to build a flexible map of possible compromised neighbors. As suspicion builds up and decays for each neighbor, TinyTermite is able to deal with uncertain stimulus and react properly. TinyTermite is fully implemented on TinyOS based Intel Mote 2 platform and the experiments were done to compare its performance with that of the traditional Termite algorithm. The experimental results show that TinyTermite is significantly more secure against replay and sinkhole attacks by lowering the packet loss from 88.5% to 32.9% with 12.7% normal packet loss. The experimental results also demonstrate that the TinyTermite provides high throughput and low latency. uspicion pheromone is added to Termite that defends against the selective forwarding and replay attacks. In our experiments we implemented a detection scheme for the replay attack and show how countermeasures can be employed in TinyTermite. We found the suspicious pheromone technique to be quite effective against a replay attack coupled with a selective forwarding attack. The suspicion defense mechanism in TinyTermite provided a significantly better defense against the attacker than Termite alone. The implementation of TinyTermite on the Imote2 platform was measured with respect to throughput, latency, and packet loss. We examine and measure the basic packet transmission mechanics between nodes on the Imote2 platform and suggest settings for better quality operations.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

12-2008

Subject

Wireless communication systems -- Security measures

Keyword

Routing; Security; Self organization; Stigmergy; Suspicion; Termite

Discipline

Information Security

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

v, 82 leaves

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.2 .P388 2008

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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