Title: A survey of Intrusion Detection Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors: Ashfaq Hussain Farooqi; Farrukh Aslam Khan

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A.K. Brohi Road, H-11/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. ' Department of Computer Science, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A.K. Brohi Road, H-11/4, Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to various kinds of security threats that can degrade the performance of the network and may cause the sensors to send wrong information to the sink. Key management, authentication and secure routing protocols cannot guarantee the required security for WSNs. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) provides a solution to this problem by analysing the network in order to detect abnormal behaviour of the sensor node(s). Researchers have proposed various approaches for detecting intrusions in WSNs during the past few years. In this survey, we classify these approaches into three categories and discuss them in detail.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; intrusion detection systems; IDS agent installation; misuse detection; anomaly-based detection; specification-based detection; denial of service; black-hole attacks; Sybil attacks; network security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.045549

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.9 No.2, pp.69 - 83

Received: 17 Nov 2009
Accepted: 03 Mar 2010
Published online: 23 Feb 2012 *

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