Open AccessMODELING AND SIMULATION OF THRESHOLD ANALYSIS FOR PVFS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author(s) -
Tae Ho Cho,
Su Man Nam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of research - granthaalayah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-3629
pISSN - 2350-0530
DOI - 10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i8.2016.2555
Subject(s) - wireless sensor network , computer science , probabilistic logic , energy (signal processing) , real time computing , computer network , mathematics , artificial intelligence , statistics
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) suffer serious damage from false positive and negative attacks due to their hardware restrictions. The sensor network causes both unnecessary energy consumption and information loss through false reports and normal reports, which include false message authentication codes (MACs). A probabilistic voting-based filtering scheme (PVFS) effectively detects the two types of attacks through a pre-defined threshold, which is the number of detected false MACs in a report. Since the threshold significantly influences the ability to detect attacks, the sensor network should be simulated to ensure proper function. In this paper, we describe the development and simulation of a PVFS-based WSN using a discrete event system specification. The experimental results showed that PVFS with a threshold of 2 reduced energy usage by about 16% and improved the detected false reports as compared with a PVFS with a threshold of 3.