Distributed Clone Attack detection Protocols in Static Wireless Sensor Networks A survey

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of sensor nodes which senses, computes and has wireless communication capabilities. WSN is deployed in unattended and unsecure environments. An adversary can easily capture one node from the network and create a clone of a captured node. Then, these clones can be deployed in all network areas, and they can be considered as legitimate members of the network. So it is difficult to detect a replicated node. In distributed environment many protocols are available to detect the clone attack. In this paper, we review these protocols and compare their performance with the help of witness selection, communication and memory overhead, detection probability of replicated nodes and resilience against node compromise.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Base station, Clone attack Witness node, Cluster based.