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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2012)

Published: November 30, 2012

Pages: 54-64

Original Article

Securing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Using Embedded Intrusion Detection Systems

Qutaiba I. Ali* Sahar Lazim Enaam Fathi 1
1Computer Engineering Department/College of Engineering/Mosul University/Iraq
History
  • Received: September 30, 2012
  • Available Online: November 30, 2012
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.8.1.6

Abstract

This paper focuses on designing distributed wireless sensor network gateways armed with Intrusion Detection System (IDS). The main contribution of this work is the attempt to insert IDS functionality into the gateway node (UBICOM IP2022 network processor chip) itself. This was achieved by building a light weight signature based IDS based on the famous open source SNORT IDS. Regarding gateway nodes, as they have limited processing and energy constrains, the addition of further tasks (the IDS program) may affects seriously on its performance, so that, the current design takes these constrains into consideration as a priority and use a special protocol to achieve this goal. In order to optimize the performance of the gateway nodes, some of the preprocessing tasks were offloaded from the gateway nodes to a suggested classification and processing server and a new searching algorithm was suggested. Different measures were taken to validate the design procedure and a detailed simulation model was built to discover the behavior of the system in different environments.

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