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Detection of SPAM attacks in the remote triggered WSN experiments

Publication Type : Conference Proceedings

Thematic Areas : Wireless Network and Application

Publisher : 7th International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA-2016, Springer Verlag.

Source : 7th International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA-2016, Springer Verlag, Volume 376, p.715-727 (2016)

Url : http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959141204&partnerID=40&md5=60eb483b555c9ca2dc82d63be9bc5062

ISBN : 9789811005565

Keywords : Complex networks, Computing resource, Denial-of-service attack, Digital multimeters, Equipment testing, False positive rates, Information science, Internet, K nearest neighbours (k-NN), Nearest neighbour search, Network bandwidth, Packet inspection, Real-time video streaming, Sensor nodes, Telecommunication traffic, Video streaming, Wireless sensor networks

Campus : Amritapuri

School : Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Center : Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)

Department : Computer Science, Wireless Networks and Applications (AWNA)

Year : 2016

Abstract : Spam attack is the deliberate delivery of unsolicited or unwanted messages across the computer networks with the intention to deplete the resources that results in Denial of Service (DoS) to the end user. This is more important to consider in Wireless sensor networks test beds where the nodes already have only little computing resources (4kb RAM), and low network bandwidth for their applications. The Remote Triggered WSN test bed (http://vlab.amrita.edu/?sub=78) that we have deployed in our university consists of more than 80 nodes connected with various sensors, digital multimeters etc., allows any student in the internet to upload their programs, execute them and view their experiment results with real time video streaming to learn the WSN concepts intuitively. Hence, there is a need to detect such type of spam attacks in the test bed, in case, a user uploads the malicious programs that affects the functioning of nodes in other experiments. We have tried two packet inspection techniques, Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB) and k-Nearest Neighbour (K-NN) for learning the pattern and identifying whether the new incoming message is Spam or Non-spam. It is observed that the GNB method could catch spam messages at 94-96% Accuracy, with only 5-10% false positive rate (FPR). It is also found that the performance of k-NN gradually decreases as k-value increases. The complexity and execution speed becomes worse at larger k-values where as they are invariant in case of GNB. Hence it shows GNB is more appropriate than k-NN for inspecting the messages. © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.

Cite this Research Publication : S. Kumar, Preeja Pradeep, Sumesh Kj, and N., J., “Detection of SPAM attacks in the remote triggered WSN experiments”, 7th International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA-2016, vol. 376. Springer Verlag, pp. 715-727, 2016.

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