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<p>In optical sensor networks, the adversary can inject false reports and old packets, both of which can cause false alarms and drain out the limited energy of the network. Existing security mechanisms can detect and filter out only false reports but not the old packets during forwarding. Furthermore, they cannot resist cooperative attacks. A MAC and one-way function based Filtering Scheme (MOFS) was presented. Each node distributes its key and initial hash value to some other nodes after deployment. A data report must carry the MACs and fresh hash values from t detecting nodes. The forwarding nodes check the logicality of the relative position of the detecting nodes carried in the report, the correctness of the MACs and hash values, and the freshness of these hash values. Analysis and simulation results show that MOFS can not only filter false reports and old packets simultaneously, but also performs well on compromise toleration</p>
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In optical sensor networks, the adversary can inject false reports and old packets, both of which can cause false alarms and drain out the limited energy of the network. Existing security mechanisms can detect and filter out only false reports but not the old packets during forwarding. Furthermore, they cannot resist cooperative attacks. A MAC and one-way function based Filtering Scheme (MOFS) was presented. Each node distributes its key and initial hash value to some other nodes after deployment. A data report must carry the MACs and fresh hash values from t detecting nodes. The forwarding nodes check the logicality of the relative position of the detecting nodes carried in the report, the correctness of the MACs and hash values, and the freshness of these hash values. Analysis and simulation results show that MOFS can not only filter false reports and old packets simultaneously, but also performs well on compromise toleration

A Mac And One-Way Function Based Filtering Scheme

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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In optical sensor networks, the adversary can inject false reports and old packets, both of which can cause false alarms and drain out the limited energy of...

A Mac And One-Way Function Based Filtering Scheme

Publié en ligne: 01 déc. 2015

Pages: 2247 - 2266

Reçu: 04 août 2015

Accepté: 03 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-852

Mots clés
Optical sensor networks, false reports, out-dated packets, MAC, one-way function

© 2015 ZHAO Jing-Guo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Mac And One-Way Function Based Filtering Scheme

Publié en ligne: 01 déc. 2015

Pages: 2247 - 2266

Reçu: 04 août 2015

Accepté: 03 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-852

Mots clésOptical sensor networks, false reports, out-dated packets, MAC, one-way function

© 2015 ZHAO Jing-Guo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Optical sensor networks, false reports, out-dated packets, MAC, one-way function