Attack and Counter Measurement of Worm Hole and False Data Injection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Abstract: Advance in wireless networking, micro-fabricationand integration (for example, sensors and actuators manufactured using micro-electromechanical system technology, or MEMS), and embedded microprocessors have enabled a new generation of massive-scale sensor networks suitable for a range of commercial and military applications. Wireless sensor network are usually unattended, self-organizing, multi-hop network very open to anyone. Their biggest advantage is also one of their biggest disadvantages: Due to small size and unattended mode of operation anyone with the proper hardware and knowledge of the network topology and protocols can connect to the network and create different attack which will compromise the entire network. This paper discusses the modes of attack in wireless sensor network and the counter measurement of worm hole and false data injection.

Keywords: WSN; Malicious; Wormhole; Sybil; Sinkhole; Counter measures