The Effect of Hop-count Modification Attack on Random Walk-based SLP Schemes Developed forWSNs: a Study
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| author | Rajaa, Manjula Ghoshb, Anirban Kumarc, Chukkapalli Praveen Samba, Suleiman Shariff, C N |
| author_facet | Rajaa, Manjula Ghoshb, Anirban Kumarc, Chukkapalli Praveen Samba, Suleiman Shariff, C N |
| contents | Source location privacy (SLP) has been of great concern in WSNs when deployed for habitat monitoring applications. The issue is taken care of by employing privacy-preserving routing schemes. In the existing works, the attacker is assumed to be passive in nature and backtracks to the source of information by eavesdropping the message signals. In this work, we try to understand the impact of active attacks by proposing a new hybrid attack model consisting of both active and passive attacks. The proposed model is then applied to three existing TTL-based random walk SLP solutions: phantom routing scheme (PRS), source location privacy using randomized routes (SLP-R), and position-independent section-based scheme (PSSLP). The performance of the algorithms in terms of privacy metrics is compared in the case of pure passive attack and hybrid attack of varying intensity. The results indicate a significant degradation in the privacy protection performance of the reference algorithms in the face of the proposed hybrid attack model indicating the importance and relevance of such attacks. It is further observed that the hybrid attack can be optimized to increase the vulnerability of the existing solutions. |
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| spellingShingle | The Effect of Hop-count Modification Attack on Random Walk-based SLP Schemes Developed forWSNs: a Study Rajaa, Manjula Ghoshb, Anirban Kumarc, Chukkapalli Praveen Samba, Suleiman Shariff, C N Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture Source location privacy (SLP) has been of great concern in WSNs when deployed for habitat monitoring applications. The issue is taken care of by employing privacy-preserving routing schemes. In the existing works, the attacker is assumed to be passive in nature and backtracks to the source of information by eavesdropping the message signals. In this work, we try to understand the impact of active attacks by proposing a new hybrid attack model consisting of both active and passive attacks. The proposed model is then applied to three existing TTL-based random walk SLP solutions: phantom routing scheme (PRS), source location privacy using randomized routes (SLP-R), and position-independent section-based scheme (PSSLP). The performance of the algorithms in terms of privacy metrics is compared in the case of pure passive attack and hybrid attack of varying intensity. The results indicate a significant degradation in the privacy protection performance of the reference algorithms in the face of the proposed hybrid attack model indicating the importance and relevance of such attacks. It is further observed that the hybrid attack can be optimized to increase the vulnerability of the existing solutions. |
| title | The Effect of Hop-count Modification Attack on Random Walk-based SLP Schemes Developed forWSNs: a Study |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20902 |