Jamming Attacks Prevention in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Secure Packet Hiding Method

Abstract: The Wireless Networks are exposed to serious security threat called jamming. This intentional interference with wireless transmissions can be used as a launch pad for mounting Denial-of-Service attacks on wireless networks This paper considers the problem of jamming under an internal threat model, where the attacker who is aware of all the network secrets and the details of implementation which results in the difficulty of detection. Jamming is broken down in to layers and this paper focuses on jamming at the Transport/Network layer. To overcome these attacks, we develop three schemes that prevent the attacker from attacking the packets. Then we analyse the security of our schemes.

Keywords: Selective Jamming, Denial-of-Service, Wireless Sensor Network’s, Packet Classification.