Energy Efficient Star Based Distributed Clone Detection in Wireless Ad-Hoc Network

Abstract

Wireless Ad-hoc Networks are susceptible to clone attacks or node replication attacks because they are
deployed in hostile and unattended environments where they are deprived of physical protection, needed physical
tamper-resistance of sensor nodes. Consequently, an attacker can simply capture and compromise sensor nodes after
replicating them, he inserts arbitrary amount of clones/replicas into the network. If these clones are certainly not simply
detected, an opponent might be further competent to mount lots of internal attacks which may emasculate various
protocols and device applications. Certain solutions happen to be proposed inside the literature to address the problem
of clone detection that is not satisfactory as they are afflicted by some serious drawbacks. With this paper we advise an
Energy-Efficient Distributed Star Based Clone Detection (ESCD) protocol which includes observer selection for
verification stage. Our protocol may also achieve better efficiency as well as it will become trustful system.