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Anomaly Detection in Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks

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During the past decade, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved as an important wireless networking technology attracting the attention of the scientific community. With WSNs being envisioned to support applications requiring little to no human attendance, however, these networks also lured the attention of various sophisticated attackers. Today, the number of attacks to which WSNs are susceptible is constantly increasing. Although many anomaly detection algorithms have been developed since then to defend against them, not all of them are tailored to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, a dominant communication standard for low power and low data rate WSNs. This paper proposes a novel anomaly detection algorithm aimed at securing the beacon-enabled mode of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol. The performance of the proposed algorithm in identifying intrusions using a rule-based detection technique is studied via simulations.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Macedonia, Egnatia 156, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Eirini Karapistoli & Anastasios A. Economides

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

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  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia, Australia

    Vijay Varadharajan

  4. Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Morley Mao

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Karapistoli, E., Economides, A.A. (2013). Anomaly Detection in Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Zia, T., Zomaya, A., Varadharajan, V., Mao, M. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04283-1_1

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