Mixed and Continuous Strategy Monitor-Forward Game Based Selective Forwarding Solution in WSN

Wireless sensor networks are often deployed in unattended and hostile environments. Due to the resource limitations and multihop communication in WSN, selective forwarding attacks launched by compromised insider nodes are a serious threat. A trust-based scheme for identifying and isolating malicious nodes is proposed and a mixed strategy and a continuous strategy Monitor-Forward game between the sender node and its one-hop neighboring node is constructed to mitigate the selective dropping attacks in WSN. The continuous game will mitigate false positives on packet dropping detection on unreliable wireless communication channel. Simulation results demonstrate that continuous Monitor-Forward game based selective forwarding solution is an efficient approach to identifying the selective forwarding attacks in WSN.